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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Caviglione L, Wendzel S, Vrhovec S, Mileva A. Security and Privacy Issues of Home Globalization. Security and Privacy (S&P). 2022; 20(1):10—11.      [DOI]      [File] 
123.
Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Checco A, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2022). ACM; 2022
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Schmidbauer T, Keller J, Wendzel S. Challenging Channels: Encrypted Covert Channels within Challenge-Response Authentication. In: Proc. 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022). ACM; 2022      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Fechner B. Poster: Steganography Hiding Patterns: A Brief Review. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2022). ACM; 2022 p. 107—108.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Mayer N, Wendzel S, Keller J. Short Paper: Untersuchung des Gender-gaps bei Cybersecurity-Publikationen. In: GI Sicherheit 2022 — Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit. 2022 p. 173—182.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. SoK: A Survey Of Indirect Network-level Covert Channels. In: Proc. 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2022). ACM; 2022 p. 546—560.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Bub D, Hartmann L, Bozakov Z, Wendzel S. Towards Passive Identification of Aged Android Devices in the Home Network. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2022). ACM; 2022 p. 17—20.      [DOI]      [File] 
117.
Mileva A, Velinov A, Hartmann L, Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. Comprehensive analysis of MQTT 5.0 susceptibility to network covert channels. Computers & Security. 2021; 104:102207.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Pettersen H, Aehle M, Alme J, Barnaföldi G, Borshchov V, Brink A, Chaar M, Eikeland V, Gregory F, Garth C, Gauger N, Genov G, Grøttvik O, Helstrup H, Igolkin S, Keidel R, Kobdaj C, Kortus T, Leonhardt V, Mehendale S, Mulawade R, Odland O, Papp G, Peitzmann T, Piersimoni P, Protsenko M, Rehman A, Richter M, Santana J, Schilling A, Seco J, Songmoolnak A, Sølie J, Tambave G, Tymchuk I, Ullaland K, Varga-Kőfaragó M, Volz L, Wagner B, Wendzel S, Wiebel A, Xiao R, Yang S, Yokoyama H, Zillien S, Röhrich D. Investigating particle track topology for range telescopes in particle radiography using convolutional neural networks. Acta Oncologica. 2021; 60(11):1413—1418.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Caviglione L, Wendzel S, Mileva A, Vrhovec S. Multidisciplinary Solutions to Modern Cybersecurity Challenges. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). 2021; 12(3):1—3.      [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