In this conversation Shravan, a Doctoral student, shares his thoughts and experiences with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting, related toHow a comic strip triggered curiosity to explore software developmentHow writing software is like solving puzzlesHis interest in security aspects while programmingHis initial personal projectsWhere one can get problems or ideas to take up research in the realm of securityVulnerabilities related to the software supply chainHow verified programming as a technique is still nascentThe evolving concept of software sandboxingPower demands of complex computing, such as bitcoin mining and IoT devicesSome research into saving power on android phonesThe possibilities of 5GThe eroom’s law and increasingly complex algorithmsHow quantum computing can help in compute intensive areas such as drug discoveryApplications of AI for social or societal problemsTechnology fighting technology for good [such as anti-virus]On offensive securityHis thoughts on taking up IT as a career or field of study / researchShravan Narayan is 4th year PhD student in the fields of computer security and programming languages at the University of California San Diego. He spends his time working on how to safely include untrusted buggy code in large applications through the use of memory isolation, colloquially called sandboxing. Before this, he worked at Microsoft for three years in Redmond, Washington as a software engineer in the windows update team. His non computer science hobbies include playing the tabla and speed solving Rubik's cubes.