- Instructional Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-3510
- Email: ritchey@cse.tamu.edu
- Office: PETR 423
- Website: Personal Website
- Linkedin: Philip Ritchey
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University — 2015
- B.S. Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University — 2008
Research Interests
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- Computer science education
- Software engineering
- Computer security and privacy
- Information hiding
- Censorship-resistant technologies
- Multi-agent systems
- Simulation and modeling
Certifications & Memberships
- Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- Member, ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education)
Awards & Honors
- Aggie Core Values Faculty Fellow – 2025
Selected Publications
- Brian Kirkmeyer, Michael D Johnson, Lisa Abrams, Roger A Green, Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, Sharon A Jones, Philip Ritchey. "Advocacy and allyship by men for women in engineering-related fields at the college level." In Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2021.
- Philip Ritchey. "It's not about winning, it's about sending a message: hiding information in games." XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students - The Complexities of Privacy and Anonymity, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 48-52, September 2013.
- Philip Ritchey and Vernon Rego. "A Context Sensitive Tiling System for Information Hiding." Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 212-226, July 2012.
- Philip Ritchey and Vernon Rego. "Hiding Secret Messages in Huffman Trees." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), pp. 71-74, 2012.
- Philip Ritchey and Vernon Rego. "Covert Channels in Combinatorial Games." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Distributed Simulation and Online Gaming (DISIO 2012) - ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2012), pp. 241-248, 2012.