He is editor in chief of Parallel Processing Letters published by World Scientific Publishing in 1991[2] and an editor of several major computing journals including: Akl is the founding editorial board member of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience Publishers; 2003 ),[6] and a past editor of Journal of Cryptology (Springer-Verlag; 1988–1991), Information Processing Letters (North-Holland; 1989–1999), and Parallel Algorithms and Applications (Taylor and Francis; 1991–2004).
Alice Wismath, an undergraduate summer student, wrote a program implementing one of the many versions that Akl proposed in his article On the Importance of Being Quantum in September's Parallel Processing Letters article.
[10] Akl chaired the 2007 International Conference on Unconventional Computation that took place in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
His book on Parallel Computational Geometry is considered to be the definitive work on the subject.
In 2018, Akl was the recipient of a CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science.