Prof. Supratik Chakraborty is our guest this week. Tune in to find out how he came full circle from the corridors of IIT in his under-grad to being one of the top leaders in formal methods at IIT Bombay. In the first of the two-part podcast, Supratik talks to Dr Darbari about his passion for asynchronous circuits & formal methods, and word-level abstractions, and symbolic trajectory evaluation. Supratik shares his insights in teaching and research in formal methods and makes a strong case about why formal methods would be necessary for the design of machine learning hardware.