Dr. Afzal received the PhD degree with high distinction in Computer Science from the Graz University of Technology, Austria, secured Gold medal in his M.Sc Computer Science from Quiad-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has been associated with academia and industry at various levels for the last 20 years, and currently he is serving as Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. He is also serving as editor-in-chief for reputed impact factor journal known as: Journal of Universal Computer Science. 

Dr. Afzal authored more than 90 research papers in the field of Digital Libraries, Information retrieval and visualization, Semantics, and Scientometrics including two books. His ISI impact factor is 50+. With citations over 400. He played pivotal role in making collaborations between MAJU-JUCS, MAJU-IICM, and TUG-UNIMAS. He served as PhD symposium chair, session chair, finance chair, committee member, and editor of several IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier international conferences and journals. 

Dr. Afzal conducted more than 100 curricular, co-curricular, and extra- curricular activities in the last 5 years including seminars, workshops, national competitions (ExcITeCup) and invited international and national speakers from Google, Oracle, IICM, IFIS, SEGA Europe etc. Under his supervision, more than 50 post grad students (MS and PhD) have defended their research theses successfully and a number of PhD and MS students are pursuing their research with him.