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. Before joining Ulm University, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT), Hochschule Worms, and a 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: Responsible for the 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
  • since 2026: External member RARP (Rechenzentrumsallianz Rheinland-Pfalz)

More information: https://www.wendzel.de/

Publikationen

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Hartmann L, Wendzel S. Anomaly Detection in ICS Based on Data-History Analysis. In: Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Keller J, Wendzel S. Covert Channels in One-Time Passwords Based on Hash Chains. In: Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. Covert Storage Caches Using the NTP Protocol. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Szary P, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Caviglione L. Design and Performance Evaluation of Reversible Network Covert Channels. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Chourib M, Keller J. Countering adaptive network covert communication with dynamic wardens. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). 2019; 94:712—725.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Velinov A, Mileva A, Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. Covert Channels in the MQTT-based Internet of Things. ACCESS. 2019; 7:161899—161915.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Link F, Eller D, Mazurczyk W. Detection of Size Modulation Covert Channels Using Countermeasure Variation. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2019; 25(11):1396—1416.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Mazurczyk W, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics, Part 2. IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P). 2019; 17(1):7—8.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Lv Z, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Song H. Recent Advances in Cyber-Physical Security in Industrial Environments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 2019; 15(12):6468—6471.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Plötner J. Einstieg in Linux . 8 ed. Rheinwerk Verlag; 2019     [Datei] 

Offene Abschlussarbeiten und Projekte

4.
(AI-based) Intrusion Detection for Supercomputing . 2026
3.
Covert Channel Amplification (Multiple Topics Available) [Bachelor/Master]. 2026
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024