Prof. Preeti Malakar, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur delivered a lecture on “Why Parallel Programming?” on 10th April 2021. The lecture was organized by School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University. Her lecture immensely benefited the graduate students, master students, research scholars and faculties with an opportunity to get a head start in Parallel Programming, which is an emerging research area in the field of Computer Science.