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

144.
Wendzel S, Wressnegger C, Hartmann L, Freiling F, Armknecht F, Reinfelder L. Sicherheit 2024 — Beiträge der 12. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI); 2024     [File] 
143.
Schymiczek J, Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. A Case Study on the Detection of Hash-Chain-based Covert Channels Using Heuristics and Machine Learning. In: Proc. 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024). ACM; 2024      [DOI]      [File] 
142.
Strachanski F, Petrov D, Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. A Comprehensive Pattern-based Overview of Stegomalware. In: Proc. 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024). ACM; 2024      [DOI]      [File] 
141.
Dittmann J, Krätzer C, Kiltz S, Altschaffel R, Vielhauer C, Wendzel S, Wefel S, Nitsch H. Attribution von verdeckten (Informations-)Kanälen im Bereich kritischer Infrastrukturen und Potentiale für Prävention und Reaktion (ATTRIBUT). In: GI Sicherheit 2024 — Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI); 2024 p. 265—268.      [DOI]      [File] 
140.
Zillien S, Schmidbauer T, Kubek M, Keller J, Wendzel S. Look What's There! Utilizing the Internet's Existing Data for Censorship Circumvention with OPPRESSION. In: Proc. 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2024). ACM; 2024 p. 80—95.      [DOI]      [File] 
139.
Keller J, Heßeling C, Wendzel S. Robust and Homomorphic Covert Channels in Streams of Numeric Data. In: Proc. 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024). ACM; 2024      [DOI]      [File] 
138.
Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W. Avoiding research tribal wars using taxonomies. IEEE Computer. 2023; 56(1):93—96.      [DOI]      [File] 
137.
Aehle M, Alme J, Barnaföldi GG, Blühdorn J, Bodova T, Borshchov V, Brink A, Eikeland VN, Feofilov G, Garth C, Gauger NR, Grøttvik OS, Helstrup H, Igolkin S, Keidel R, Kobdaj C, Kortus T, Kusch L, Leonhardt V, Mehendale S, Mulawade RN, Odland OH, O'Neill G, Papp G, Peitzmann T, Pettersen HES, Piersimoni P, Pochampalli R, Protsenko M, Rauch M, Rehman AU, Richter M, Roehrich D, Sagebaum M, Santana J, Schilling A, Seco J, Songmoolnak A, Sudár Á, Tambave G, Tymchuk I, Ullaland K, Varga-Kőfaragó M, Volz L, Wagner B, Wendzel S, Wiebel A, Xiao R, Yang S, Zillien S. Exploration of differentiability in a proton computed tomography simulation framework. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2023; 68(24)1      [DOI]      [File] 
136.
Schilling A, Aehle M, Alme J, Barnaföldi GG, Bodova T, Borshchov V, Brink A, Eikeland VN, Feofilov G, Garth C, Gauger NR, Grøttvik OS, Helstrup H, Igolkin S, Keidel R, Kobdaj C, Kortus T, Leonhardt V, Mehendale S, Mulawade RN, Odland OH, O'Neill G, Papp G, Peitzmann T, Pettersen HES, Piersimoni P, Protsenko M, Rauch M, Rehman AU, Richter M, Roehrich D, Santana J, Seco J, Songmoolnak A, Sudár Á, Tambave G, Tymchuk I, Ullaland K, Varga-Kőfaragó M, Volz L, Wagner B, Wendzel S, Wiebel A, Xiao R, Yang S, Zillien S. Uncertainty-aware spot rejection rate as quality metric for proton therapy using a digital tracking calorimeter. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2023; 68:194001.      [DOI]      [File] 
135.
Zillien S, Wendzel S. Weaknesses of popular and recent covert channel detection methods and a remedy. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 2023; 20(6):5156—5167.      [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