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

54.
Wendzel S, Ploetner J. Einstieg in Linux. 7 ed. Rheinwerk Verlag; 2016
53.
Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Zander S, Houmansadr A, Szczypiorski K. Information Hiding in Communication Networks. Fundamentals, Mechanisms, and Applications. Wiley-IEEE; 2016      [DOI] 
52.
Meier M, Reinhardt D, Wendzel S. Sicherheit 2016 — Beiträge der 8. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI); 2016     [File] 
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Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. Poster: An Educational Network Protocol for Covert Channel Analysis Using Patterns. In: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2016 p. 1739–1741.      [DOI]      [File] 
50.
Wendzel S, Palmer C. Creativity in Mind: Evaluating and Maintaining Advances in Network Steganographic Research.. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2015; 21(12):1684—1705.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Zander S, Fechner B, Herdin C. Pattern-based survey and categorization of network covert channel techniques. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2015; 47(3):1—26.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Szczypiorski K, Janicki A, Wendzel S. "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly": Evaluation of Wi-Fi Steganography. In: 6th International Conference on Networking and Information Technology (ICNIT 2015). 2015 p. 747—752.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Caviglione L, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S. Analysis of human awareness of security and privacy threats in smart environments. In: International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust (HAS 2015). 2015 p. 165—177.      [DOI]      [File] 
46.
Anhaus EM, Wendzel S. BACtag — Data Leakage Protection für Gebäude. In: D-A-CH Security 2015. syssec; 2015 p. 417—248.     [File] 
45.
Kaur J, Wendzel S, Meier M. Countermeasures for covert channel-internal control protocols. In: 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015); IWCC Workshop. 2015 p. 422—428.      [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