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, Olschewski D. Internet of Things und Smart Contracts: Risiken bei der Digitalisierung von Unternehmen. In: Springer; 2018      [DOI] 
73.
Zillien S, Wendzel S. Detection of covert channels in TCP retransmissions. In: Proc. 23rd Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2018). Springer; 2018 p. 203—218.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Eller D, Mazurczyk W. One Countermeasure, Multiple Patterns: Countermeasure Variation for Covert Channels. In: Proc. Central European Security Conference (CECC 2018). ACM; 2018 p. 1:1—1:6.      [DOI]      [File] 
71.
Spenger G, Keler J, Wendzel S. Enhanced Ant Colony-inspired Parallel Algorithm to Improve Cryptographic PRNGs. Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (JCSM). 2017 Nov. 02; 6(2):147—170.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Tonejc J, Kaur J, Kobekova A. Cyber Security of Smart Buildings. In: H. Song and G. Fink and S. Jeschke, editors. Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations and Applications. Wiley-IEEE Press; 2017 Jul. 17 p. 327—352.      [DOI]      [File] 
69.
Lehner F, Mazurczyk W, Keller J, Wendzel S. Inter-protocol Steganography for Real-time Services and Its Detection Using Traffic Coloring Approach. In: Proc. 42th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2017). IEEE; 2017 Jul. 17 p. 78—85.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Lalande J. Network Information Hiding and Science 2.0: Can it be a Match?. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications (IJET). 2017; 62(2):217—222.      [DOI]      [File] 
67.
Mazurczyk W, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics — Part 1. IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P). 2017; 15(6):10—11.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W, Haas G. Steganography for Cyber-physical Systems. Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (JCSM). 2017; 6(2):105—126.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Caviglione L, Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. The Future of Digital Forensics: Challenges and the Road Ahead. IEEE Security and Privacy. 2017; 15(6):12—17.      [DOI]      [File] 

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