Ayesha Shafiuddin and Malika Muradi have been selected as recipients of WHPC’s 2025 Travel Fellowships and will attend the WHPC@SC25 Workshop to present their research.
Celebrating our 2025 WHPC@SC25 Travel Fellowship Recipients
The WHPC Travel Fellowships aim to empower rising talent in the high-performance computing (HPC) community by supporting their attendance at major international conferences and giving them a platform to share their work with a global audience. These fellowships are made possible thanks to the continued and generous support of the WHPC Champions: AWS + AMD, our WHPC@SC25 supporters and the dedicated efforts of our wonderful volunteer committee.
WHPC Global and the WHPC@SC25 Committee are honored to recognize two outstanding individuals who demonstrate the excellence and leadership that we are proud to be supporting and fostering. We look forward to their participation at SC25 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, where they will showcase their research as part of the early-career lightning talks during the WHPC@SC25 Workshop.
Meet Our SC 2025 Travel Fellows
Ayesha Shafiuddin
Ayesha Shafiuddin is a Post-baccalaureate Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory, where she works with the HPC Outreach Education team. Her focus is on refining evaluation methods to enhance future training initiatives and contribute to a more HPC-enabled world. Ayesha earned her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the College of DuPage and Lewis University, where she sought out opportunities to broaden her global and technical perspectives. This included studying abroad in Seoul, where she took an introductory machine learning course. Throughout her academic journey, Ayesha also served as a student trustee at the College of DuPage, captained the Mock Trial team at Lewis University, and actively participated in mental health advocacy groups. These experiences honed her leadership and communication skills and fueled her commitment to building inclusive communities in both education and STEM.
Currently, Ayesha is exploring joint PhD-JD programs to further her research on integrating HPC and AI into the field of law. She is eager to contribute her passion and expertise to advancing HPC’s role in this space.
At SC25, Ayesha will present her lightning talk titled “Building a Sustainable Intro to HPC Bootcamp” at the WHPC workshop. Below is the abstract for her presentation:
High-performance computing (HPC) is critical to advancing STEM research, yet undergraduate curriculum exposure to HPC remains limited, often only offered in graduate-level courses, if offered at all. The Argonne Introduction to High-Performance Computing Bootcamp addresses this need through a one-week, immersive program, introducing participants to core HPC concepts and computational tools. As part of the bootcamp organizing team, the Argonne professional career intern’s role focused on creating a sustainable framework for the bootcamp’s annual delivery by documenting processes, developing reusable templates, and refining evaluation methods. Additional efforts included onboarding peer mentors, ensuring data quality in evaluations, and capturing both quantitative and qualitative measures of the program’s impact. Through these strategies, the bootcamp aims to expand accessibility, improve participant preparedness for HPC-enabled research, and cultivate a more diverse and skilled HPC community.
Malika Muradi
Malika Muradi is a computer science graduate from BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is interested in artificial intelligence and its potential to solve real-world problems. Her research has focused on natural language processing for low-resource languages such as Dari and Urdu, and she has collaborated on projects applying machine learning to practical challenges.
Currently, she is contributing with Bamaa, an AI-powered platform created by Afghan tech volunteers dedicated to bringing sustainable change on education. Bamaa helps Afghan students improve their STEM skills in their native language, making learning more accessible and meaningful. Malika will be presenting Bamaa at the Women in High performance computing (WHPC) Workshop at SC25, sharing the work of the team and the impact of the platform. Below is the abstract for her presentation:
Decades of conflict and poverty have devastated Afghanistan’s education system, leaving curricula outdated, poor quality education and shorten human resources. Although Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) learning platforms have seen widespread global adoption, Afghan learners remain largely excluded due to language barriers, limited awareness, low digital literacy, lack of trust, financial constraint and the situation worsened by the nationwide education ban on girls and women.
To address this gap, we introduce Bamaa, a platform to support students in Afghanistan in improving their problem-solving skills in STEM subjects. The platform support Dari and Pashto (Afghanistan’s native languages), enabling an inclusive personalized learning and individual feedback and recommendation learning experience for students navigating educational barriers caused by years of political instability, poverty and the restrictive policies imposed by the current regime on women.
Join us at SC25
We’re proud to celebrate Ayesha and Malika’s achievements and excited to see their contributions showcased at WHPC@SC25 in St. Louis. Make sure to attend the WHPC@SC25 Workshop to connect with the next generation of HPC talent!
We also recently awarded our 2025 Travel Fellowship recipients for ISC 2025, check out the press release here: https://womeninhpc.org/press-release/announcing-the-whpc-travel-fellows-for-isc-2025