Cyber Security (Malware, Privacy, Artificial Immune Systems)
Bio-Inspired & Meta-Heuristic Algorithms (Evolutionary Computation, Adversarial Learning, Trust, Explainability)
Computing Education (Pedagogy, Programming, Evaluation)
Security and Privacy in Smart Systems
Neuroevolution for search and optimisation
Software Engineering & Application Development
Avudaiappan, Veeramanohar and Murali, Ritwik , "Reconstructing Graphic Design Posters via Visual Decomposition and Semantic Layer Translation". In ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Posters (pp. 1-2). 2025. Online | PDF|
Murali, Ritwik., Sivamani, Ashwin Narayanan., Ramakrishnan, Abhinav., Arul, Hariharan., R, Ananya, "Evolve On Click (EvOC)- An Intuitive Web Platform to Collaboratively Implement, Execute, and Visualize Evolutionary Algorithms". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2025. Online | PDF|
Babaagba, Kehinde., Murali, Ritwik., and Thomson, Sarah L "Algorithm Explainability for Malware Evolution with Search Trajectory Networks". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2025. Online | PDF|
Jobanputra, Vedant Dhaval., Reddy, Basam Thilaknath., Sri Ganesh, Bhojanapalli., Chandrasekara, Bagavathi and Murali, Ritwik, "LLM-aided Evolutionary Algorithms for Haiku Generation". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2025. Online | PDF|
Avudaiappan, Veeramanohar and Murali, Ritwik, "Exploring Multi-objective Evolution for Aesthetic and Abstract 3D Art." International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. Online | PDF| Poster| Presentation
Babaagba, Kehinde., Murali, Ritwik., and Thomson, Sarah L "Exploring the use of fitness landscape analysis for understanding malware evolution". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2024. Online | PDF| Poster
Dhanalakshmy, M Dhanya and Murali, Ritwik. "Can Technical Festivals Help in Attaining Undergraduate Engineering Programme Outcomes?" . IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE). IEEE. 2024. Online | PDF| Presentation
Goel, Neeraj., Shah, Bhumika., Kumar, Mrityunjay., Murali, Ritwik., and Gupta, Ruchika "Challenges and Outcomes of Organizing an Open Discussion Forum for Building the CSEd Research Community". Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM India Compute Conference. 2024. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik and Avudaiappan, Veeramanohar. "Exploring Evolution for Aesthetic & Abstract 3D Art". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2024. Online | PDF | Poster
(Best Paper) Murali, Ritwik., Dhanalakshmy, M Dhanya., Avudaiappan, Veeramanohar., Sivakumar, Gayathri. "Towards Assessing the Credibility of Chatbot Responses for Technical Assessments in Higher Education". IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). IEEE, 2024. Online | PDF | Presentation
Murali, Ritwik., Ravi, Nitin., Surendran, Amruthiyu. "Augmenting Virtual Labs with Artificial Intelligence for Hybrid Learning". IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). IEEE, 2024. Online | PDF | Presentation
Murali, Ritwik and Ravi, Akash, “Securing The Software Package Supply Chain For Critical Systems”, Cybersecurity and Data Science Innovations for Sustainable Development of HEICC Healthcare, Education, Industry, Cities and Communities, chapter 25, CRC Press 2025. (ISBN:9781032711287) Online | PDF
Sarkar, Rudra and Murali, Ritwik, “Evolving binary masks to explain image classification”, Seventh International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition(RTIP2R-2024), 2024 Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik., Sukumar, Rajkumar., Gali, Mary Sanjana., Avudaiappan, Veeramanohar. "Empowering Novice Programmers with Visual Problem Solving tools". Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference. 2023. Online | PDF | Presentation| Poster
Murali, Ritwik., Ravi, Akash., Nagendran, Kailashnath., Avudaiappan, Veeramanohar . "Student Perception of Online Judges in Learning Problem Solving through Introductory Programming." Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference. 2023. Online | PDF | Presentation
Shyju, Saurav and Murali, Ritwik. "ATLAS - A Co-evolutionary Framework for Automatic Tuning of Adversarial Neural Networks." Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2023. Online | PDF| Poster
Murali, Ritwik, Thangavel, Palanisamy and C. Shunmuga Velayutham. "Evolving Malware Variants as Antigens for Antivirus Systems". Expert Systems With Applications. 2023. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik, and C. Shunmuga Velayutham. "Adapting novelty towards generating antigens for antivirus systems." Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2022. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik, and C. Shunmuga Velayutham. "A preliminary investigation into automatically evolving computer viruses using evolutionary algorithms." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems Vol 38 No 5, IOS Press, 2020. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik, and C. Shunmuga Velayutham. "A Conceptual Direction on Automatically Evolving Computer Malware using Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms." 2020 International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT). IEEE, 2020. Online | PDF | Presentation
ManiArasuSekar, KannanMani S., Paveethran Swaminathan, and Ritwik Murali. "Optimal feature selection for non-network malware classification." 2020 International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT). IEEE, 2020. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik, Akash Ravi, and Harshit Agarwal. "A Malware Variant Resistant To Traditional Analysis Techniques." 2020 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ic-ETITE). IEEE, 2020. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik, Akash Ravi, and Harshit Agarwal. "Enhancing Digital Well-being using Opinion Mining and Sentiment Classifiers." 2020 International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT). IEEE, 2020. Online | PDF
Jayakrishnan, Hariharan, and Ritwik Murali. "A Simple and Robust End-to-End Encryption Architecture for Anonymous and Secure Whistleblowing." 2019 Twelfth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3). IEEE, 2019. Online | PDF
Murali, Ritwik; Nachimuthu, Dhivya; SenthilKumar, Dhansri Varsha; Pandian, Malarvizhi Shanmuga; Krishnen, Dhareni, “Localizing Assets in an Indoor Environment Using Sensor Fusion”,International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) 2018, pp 204 - 210 Online | PDF
Soundappan. S, Shaji Kumar. R and Ritwik. M, “A Novel Advertisement Recommendation System For Online Video Portals”, ”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10 No.11 (2015) Online | PDF
Hari V Kumar, M Ritwik, Arjun M Nair ,” Identifying third-party-influenced vulnerabilities in Massively Multi-player Online Role-playing Games” at the International Conference on Advances in Applied Engineering and Technology - 2015 (ICAAET'15), published in International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 10 (55) 2979-2983 Online | PDF
Menon, Pranav Santosh, and M. Ritwik. "A comprehensive but not complicated survey on quantum computing." IERI Procedia 10 (2014): 144-152. Online | PDF
Ritwik M and Praveen K, “Analyzing the Makier Virus”, International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI-ISSN:1694-0784) Volume 10 Issue 2, March 2013
"Towards Automated Ransomware Mitigation using Public Repositories with Ontology-guided Mapping and Co-evolutionary Modeling" (SERB-SUPRA) - Under Review
“Object Oriented Programming Virtual lab”, submitted to Ministry of Education (MOE) - Sanctioned (2022 to 2023)
“Network Security Virtual Lab ”, submitted to Ministry of Education (MOE) - Sanctioned (2022 to 2023) - Completed - April 2023
“Cryptography Virtual Lab ”, submitted to Ministry of Education (MOE) - Sanctioned (2023 to 2024)
An evolutionary algorithm based self adaptive fault detection & prediction system.
Towards Generating Antigens for antivirus systems.
A co-evolutionary framework for automatic tuning of GANs.
Towards automatically evolving malware datasets for proactive identification of malware variants using Evolutionary algorithms.
Flowgramming: An Open Source tool that allows first time programmers entry into programming through flowcharts and novice programmers to view their program logic as a flowchart.
Analysing student performance and error rate in introductory programming using supervised machine learning algorithms.
Project Eye - A collaborative project with Aravind Eye Hospital - Coimbatore & Amrita Hospital - Kochi towards building a glaucoma dataset and predictive models using Deep Learning while maintaining patient privacy.
An analysis on the performance of malware detection algorithms on popular malware datasets(2021-22) .
Flowgramming - a platform-independent graphical authoring tool to draw and execute programs using flowcharts(2020-21, 2021-22).
Optimal feature selection for non-network malware classification(2019-20)
A Simple and Robust End-to-End Encryption Architecture for Anonymous and Secure Whistleblowing(2018-19)
A study on generating signatures of a popular Ransomware(2017-18)
Localizing Assets in an Indoor Environment Using Sensor Fusion(2016-17)
Product Feature Analysis - A Tool to extract popular features of any product(2015-16)
A Novel Advertisement Recommendation System For Online Video Portals(2014-15)
Pulse: A sentiment analysis tool for social media(2014-15)
Developing a framework for analyzing vulnerabilities in Massive Online Multiplayer Role Playing Games.(2014-15)
Evaluation of RSA in a Quantum Computing Environment(2013-14)