Institute of Information Resource Management

Steffen Wendzel is the Chair of the Institute of Information Resource Management (IRM / OMI) and Director of the kiz (university library and computing center). He received his habilitation (2020) and PhD (Dr. rer. nat., 2013) from the University of Hagen, Germany. Before joining Ulm University, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT), Hochschule Worms, and a PostDoc at the Dep. Cyber Security, Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn.

Current Roles:

  • since 2024: Chair of the Institute of Information Resource Management (OMI)
  • since 2024: Director of the Library and Computing Center (kiz), Ulm University
  • since 2026: Scientific Spokesperson of BelWü
  • since 2024: Member: Working Group of the Scientific Computing Center Directors Baden-Württemberg (ALWR)
  • since 2024: Member: Working Group of the Library Directors Baden-Württemberg (AG BibDir)
  • since 2025: Responsible for the State-level High-performance Computing Project bwHPC-S5 (jointly with Prof. M. Frank, KIT)
  • since 2025: Member: consultative group for bwInfoSec
  • since 2024: Member: Senatsausschuss Lehre, Universität Ulm
  • since 2024: Member: Lenkungsausschuss des Projekts Campusportal zur Einführung von HISinOne, Ulm University
  • since 2025: DFN Representative for Ulm University
  • since 2025: ZKI Representative for Ulm University

More information: https://www.wendzel.de/

Publications

164.
Wendzel S, Volpert S, Zillien S, Lenz J, Rünz P, Caviglione L. A Survey of Internet Censorship and its Measurement: Methodology, Trends, and Challenges. Computers & Security. 2026; 1641      [DOI] 
163.
Weißenborn C, Wendzel S. History covert channels with relative timing pointers: Design, error resilience, and detectability. Journal of Information Security and Applications. 2026; 991      [DOI] 
162.
Wendzel S, Lenz J, Baumann M. Internet censorship’s implications on academic research: Motivating an academic accessibility by design. Communications of the ACM (CACM). 2026; 69(9):44-47.      [DOI] 
161.
Velinov A, Mileva A, Volpert S, Zillien S, Wendzel S. Steganography in the QUIC Communication Protocol. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2026; 32(2):181-208.      [DOI] 
160.
Renaud K, Wendzel S, Heinemann A. Cybersecurity. Proceedings of the 10th European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, EICC 2026, Darmstadt, Germany, June 17–18, 2026. Springer; 2026      [DOI] 
159.
Skwarek V, Wöhnert KH, Kaven S, Wendzel S. Sicherheit 2026 — Beiträge der 13. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI); 2026      [DOI]      [File] 
158.
Gross F, Petrov D, Ruffing P, Zillien S, Wendzel S. A Warden to Analyze and Counter Stegomalware Activities. In: Proc. ARES Workshops 2026. Springer; 2026      [DOI] 
157.
Wendzel S. AdullamoT: Using IoT Devices as Relays for Time-decoupled Secret Exchange and Censorship Circumvention. In: Proc. 14th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (ACM IH&MMSec 2026), Florence, Italy, June 17-19. ACM; 2026      [DOI] 
156.
Wendzel S, Zillien S, Zander S. AMPhitryon: Efficient small data compression for low-bandwidth covert channels. In: Proc. 41st ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2026). Springer; 2026      [DOI] 
155.
Lenz J, Volpert S, Zillien S, Rünz P, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Digital Control: National Tactics of Internet Censorship. In: European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2026). Springer; 2026      [DOI] 

Open Theses and Projects

8.
(AI-based) Intrusion Detection for Supercomputing . 2026
7.
Auslastungsanzeige für die Bibliothek [Bachelor]. 2026
6.
Covert Channel Amplification (Multiple Topics Available) [Bachelor/Master]. 2026
5.
Mehrere Bachelorarbeitsthemen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem kiz . 2026
4.
Censorship Resistant Scientific Repository [Master]. 2025 Jul.     [File] 
3.
Erweiterung bestehender Tunneling-Software für den Einsatz in Experimentalumgebungen [Bachelor]. 2025
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024