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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Lenz J, Bozakov Z, Wendzel S, Vrhovec S. Why People Replace their Aging Smart Devices: A Push–Pull–Mooring Perspective. Computers & Security (COSE). 2023; 130:103258.      [DOI]      [File] 
133.
Mileva A, Franqueira V, Wendzel S. Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2023 (EICC 2023). ACM; 2023      [DOI]      [File] 
132.
Schorr V, Kamenev N, Bleistein T, Werth D, Wendzel S, Weigold T. Power Consumption Analysis as a Detection Indicator for Cyberattacks on Smart Home Devices. In: Proc. Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2023, Part II. Springer; 2023 p. 224—239.      [DOI]      [File] 
131.
Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Mileva A, Dittmann J, Krätzer C, Lamshöft K, Vielhauer C, Hartmann L, Keller J, Neubert T, Zillien S. A Generic Taxonomy for Steganography Methods. TechRxiv. 2022 Jul.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Szary P, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Caviglione L. Analysis of Reversible Network Covert Channels. ACCESS. 2022; 10:41226—41238.      [DOI]      [File] 
129.
Hartmann L, Wendzel S. Anomaly Detection for Industrial Control Systems Through Totally Integrated Automation Portal Project History. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). 2022; 13(3):4—24.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. Detection Of Computational Intensive Reversible Covert Channels Based On Packet Runtime. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). 2022; 13(1):137—166.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W, Caviglione L, Houmansadr A. Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). 2022; 128:317—319.      [DOI]      [File] 
126.
Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Guest Editorial: Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies. it — Information Technology (ITIT). 2022; 64(1-2):1—3.      [DOI]      [File] 
125.
Mileva A, Velinov A, Dimitrova V, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Information Hiding in the DICOM Message Service and Upper Layer Service with Entropy-Based Detection. Entropy. 2022; 24(2)1      [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