Steffen Wendzel: About me

I am a PhD student at the University of Hagen and work as a researcher at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (project IT4SE and eBusiness-Lotse Schwaben). For the IT4SE project, I was as a visiting researcher at the HCI lab of the University of Waikato, NZ (two times, in total for 3 months).
I developed various open source software and led the Hardened Linux project, contributed to other projects and the open source community by writing patches, BSD ports and bug reports, as well as by running and contributing to the Linux Users Welcome project.
I started writing computer related books and articles when I was 17. Occasionally I also give talks and write some weblogs.

Education

since 2009: Ph.D. student at the University of Hagen (chair of parallel computing and VLSI); topics: covert channels, network protocols, building automation security
2011: M.Sc. in CS from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences; focus on network security
2009: Diplom-Informatiker(FH), Kempten University of Applied Sciences; focus on operating systems, networks and parallel computing

Research Interests

network covert channels,
network protocol engineering and TCP/IP protocols,
network security,
IT security and security engineering,
administration and programming of Linux/Unix/BSD systems,
open source project management, and
building automation security.
In addition to computer science I am interested in psychology and campus novels.

Academic Activities

Awards:
- Best Paper Award at the The Seventh International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2012), Stuttgart, 2012.
Research Abroad:
- Guest researcher for two times (in total for three months) at the University of Waikato, NZ via project IT4SE (Prof. Dr. Rist, Dr. Masoodian; Reference)
Organization of Academic Events:
- the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 6th IT4SE workshop in Augsburg, Germany
- SPRING 8 of the GI SIG SIDAR at the Munich University of Applied Sciences
Review for Conferences:
- Technical Program Committee Member at 8th Int. Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2013), Rome, Italy, 2013.
Reviews for Journals:
- Springer Annals of Telecommunications - Annales des Télécommunications (ANTE)
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
- Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)
Reviews for Professional Books:
- Arnold Willemer: Linux-Server einrichten und administrieren mit Debian 6 GNU/Linux, Galileo Press, 2011.
- Dirk Becker: OpenVPN. Das Praxisbuch, Galileo Press, 2008.
- Thomas Theis: Einstieg in PHP5, Galileo Press, 2006.
- Sascha Kersken: Handbuch für Fachinformatiker, Galileo Press GmbH, 2005 (checked the IT security chapter).
Memberships:
- German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
- IEEE (graduate student member)