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Ritwik Murali

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-1269-2257
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Dr.Ritwik Murali currently serves as Assistant Professor (SG) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus.

Dr. Ritwik completed his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pondicherry Central University. He was working as a software professional in multi-national companies before returning to the academia. He obtained his Masters from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Cyber Security and started working in Amrita as an Assistant Professor while also pursuing his doctoral research concurrently. His PhD is in the inter-disciplinary area of Evolutionary Algorithms and Computer Security at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Amrita University - Coimbatore.

His areas of research include Computer Malware Analysis, Threat Modelling, Cyber Security, Meta-heuristic algorithms for search & optimisation and Neuroevolution and Computing Education. Currently, he is working on the applications of Computational Intelligence techniques on computer malware and evolution of deep neural networks. Apart from academic research, he also mentors and trains students for various Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking contests, hackathons, Computer Game Development and generic competitions. He has also built multiple software of internal use as well as designed open source software for computing education.

He has also won several awards and recognitions from both public and government sectors. Winner - Smart India Hackathon in 2018 under Ministry of Defence, Special Appreciation for the World Food India Hackathon in 2017 by Ministry of Food Processing Industries, The Deloitte Innovation Award under Ministry of Rural Development in 2017, award for "Smart City Kovai - A Way Forward" by The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in 2016 and as the mentor for the OWASP winter code sprint in 2015 are some of the special awards.

He is also a strong believer of open source technologies and is an avid follower of the same.

Dr. Ritwik is also the Advisor for Amritians - the CodeChef chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, the faculty advisor for the Amrita Toastmasters Club, and is the head of the Computational thinking Research and Education (CORE) Lab .

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Education

  • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University PhD
    2016 - 2023

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