Klaus Wehrle (Professor)

Klaus Wehrle, Dr.-Ing., Professor

 

 

 

 

RWTH Aachen University
Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems (COMSYS, Informatik 4) 
Ahornstraße 55, building E3, office 9011
D-52074 Aachen / Germany

Phone: (+49) 241/80-21402, Fax: (+49) 241/80-22222
Email: wehrle <at> comsys.rwth-aachen.de

 

 

 

 

Email / Exam Policy

Email / Exam Policy

 

Exam Dates and Procedure:

Dates for oral exams are offered biweekly, every second Wednesday from 3pm till 6pm.

If you plan to do an oral exam, please follow this procedure:

  1. reserve a slot in advance at the COMSYS office (office(at)comsys.rwth-aachen.de) with mentioning your study program and the planned lectures to be examined. We will confirm the combination subsequently. Please download our examination sheet, fill it in, and keep it till you exam date.
  2. confirm the exam slot latest four weeks ahead of your exam at the COMSYS office (office(at)comsys.rwth-aachen.de). but be sure, that you are well prepared for the exam at that time.
  3. if you plan to have an oral exam with two professors, please check first the availability of slots with the ComSys office and then find a joint date with the other examiner. Then book the final date at the ComSys office.
  4. after reserving a slot please register at ZPA (Central Exam Registry, Zentrales Prüfungsamt) for the oral exam! As for all other exams, a registration with ZPA is mandatory before the exam date. Note that on our examination sheet you have to sign that you are registered with ZPA.
  5. bring the examination sheet with you on the exam day, and hand it over to us at the beginning of the exam.

For teaching related emails, please use the following mail address: teaching (at) comsys.rwth-aachen.de If you are looking for a second advisor (Zweitgutachter) for your Bachelor's / Master's thesis, please consult the following website.

For scientific, project or other research/universiy-related purposes,
please use the following address: wehrle (at) comsys.rwth-aachen.de

CV

CV

Klaus Wehrle is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Communication and Distributed Systems Group (Informatik 4) at RWTH Aachen University,
He received his diploma (1999) and his doctorate (Dr.-Ing., 2002) from the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), both with distinction. His doctoral thesis on flexible and scalable Quality of Service mechanisms for the next generation Internet was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Prize of Südwestmetall and the FZI Doctoral Dissertation Prize (Research Center for Information Technology, FZI).

In 2002 and 2003, Klaus was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB).
In 2004, he received a DFG Emmy Noether (starting) grant to establish a junior research group on protocol engineering and distributed systems at the University of Tübingen. 
In 2006 he joined RWTH Aachen University as an associate professor, since 2010 as a full professor. From 2019 to 2022 he will be acting head of the Department of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University.


His research activities focus on (but are not limited to) the engineering of network protocols, (formal) methods for protocol engineering and network analysis, network simulation, reliable communication software, and all operating system issues of networking. 
His research is mainly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Research Council (through an ERC CoG and an ERC PoC grant), the EU, the German government (BMBF, BMWi), the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), and industrial partners.
From 2015 to 2023 he was coordinating the DFG Priority Program on Cyber-Physical Networking.
He is a member of IEEE, ACM, Sigcomm, GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik), VDE and GI/ITG-Fachgruppe KuVS.
He was/is a member of several evaluation boards of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and serves as an elected representative for communication systems at the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Publications

Publications

2024

Illicit Blockchain Content – Its Different Shapes, Consequences, and Remedies
Blockchains – A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications Volume 105 of Advances in Information Security
Chapter 10, page 301-336.
Publisher: Springer,
March 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-32145-0
22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS '24), Abu Dhabi, UAE
March 2024
Accepted
Markus Dahlmanns, Andreas Wark, Carl-Heinz Genzel, and Klaus Wehrle
VDE ETG/FNN-Tutorial 2024 Schutz- und Leittechnik, March 05-06, 2024, Leipzig, Germany
March 2024
Poster: Resiliente Kommunikation für die Fernwirktechnik in digitalen Umspannwerken
VDE ETG/FNN-Tutorial 2024 Schutz- und Leittechnik, March 05-06, 2024, Leipzig, Germany
March 2024
Jan Pennekamp, Roman Matzutt, Christopher Klinkmüller, Lennart Bader, Martin Serror, Eric Wagner, Sidra Malik, Maria Spiß, Jessica Rahn, Tan Gürpinar, Eduard Vlad, Sander J. J. Leemans, Salil S. Kanhere, Volker Stich, and Klaus Wehrle
ACM Computing Surveys, 56(2)
February 2024
ISSN: 0360-0300
Jan Pennekamp, Fritz Alder, Lennart Bader, Gianluca Scopelliti, Klaus Wehrle, and Jan Tobias Mühlberg
IEEE Access, 12:9350-9368
January 2024
ISSN: 2169-3536
Collectively Enhancing IoT Security: A Privacy-Aware Crowd-Sourcing Approach
Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS '23), December 11-13, 2023, Bordeaux, France Volume 14551of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer Cham,
2024

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’23), November 26-30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publisher: ACM,
November 2023
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0050-7/23/11
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’23), November 26-30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, page 3591-3593.
Publisher: ACM,
November 2023
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0050-7/23/11
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '23), November 26-30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, page 3543-3545.
Publisher: ACM,
November 2023
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0050-7/23/11
Jan Pennekamp, Markus Dahlmanns, Frederik Fuhrmann, Timo Heutmann, Alexander Kreppein, Dennis Grunert, Christoph Lange, Robert H. Schmitt, and Klaus Wehrle
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 23(4)
November 2023
ISSN: 1533-5399
Lennart Bader, Jan Pennekamp, Emildeon Thevaraj, Maria Spiß, Salil S. Kanhere, and Klaus Wehrle
Proceedings of the 20th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous '23), November 14-17, 2023, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, page 464-475.
Publisher: Springer,
November 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-63988-3
Journal of Systems Research, 3(1)
October 2023
ISSN: 2770-5501
Tobias Heins, René Glebke, Mirko Stoffers, Sriram Gurumurthy, Jan Heesemann, Martina Josevski, Antonello Monti, and Klaus Wehrle
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2023)
Publisher: IEEE,
October 2023
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '23)
Publisher: ACM,
October 2023
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '23)
Publisher: ACM,
October 2023
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0382-9/23/10
Eric Wagner, Nils Rothaug, Konrad Wolsing, Lennart Bader, Klaus Wehrle, and Martin Henze
48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Daytona Beach, Florida, US
Publisher: IEEE,
October 2023
Accepted
Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS '23), September 25-29, 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands Volume 14345, page 102-122.
Publisher: Springer,
September 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-51475-3
Matthias Bodenbenner, Jan Pennekamp, Benjamin Montavon, Klaus Wehrle, and Robert H. Schmitt
Proceedings of the 21th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN '23), July 17-20, 2023, Lemgo, Germany
Publisher: IEEE,
July 2023
ISBN: 978-1-6654-9313-0
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '23), July 10-14, 2023, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, page 797-811.
Publisher: ACM,
July 2023
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0098-9/23/07
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A small note for potential applicants

A small note for potential applicants

We are always looking for enthusiastic talent to join our group. As such, we also welcome unsolicited applications.
If you are considering to apply for a position as a researcher or PhD student within the COMSYS team, please submit your meaningful application as pdf to phd[[at]]comsys.rwth-aachen.de.
For PhD applications, we would at least expect a short CV, a transcript of records, and a motivation letter that describes your research interests and your motivation to pursue your PhD with us.

You can find more information on doing a PhD with us on a dedicated subpage

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