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. Earlier, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Hagen, Germany, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT) at Hochschule Worms, and 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: Project lead: 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

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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