Klaus Wehrle (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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award at 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '22), December 5-9, 2022, Austin, TX, USA
Publisher: ACSA,
December
2022
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Proceedings of the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022)
Publisher: IEEE,
December
2022
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on New IP and Beyond, co-located with the 30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
November
2022
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Ecosystems (DEco '22), co-located with the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '22), September 5-9, 2022, Sydney, Australia, Volume 3306, page 51-63.
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
September
2022
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IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing,
10(3):1661-1674
September
2022
ISSN: 2168-7161
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47th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Edmonton, Canada, September 26-29, 2022
Publisher: IEEE,
September
2022
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Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS '22), September 26-30, 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark Volume 978-3-031-17143-7, page 574--594.
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland,
September
2022
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Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA '22)
Publisher: IFIP,
June
2022
ISBN: 978-3-903176-47-8
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Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '22), May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan, page 252-266.
Publisher: ACM,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9140-5/22/05
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Proceedings of the 8th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS '22), co-located with the 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '22), May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan, page 73-84.
Publisher: ACM,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9176-4/22/05
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Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '22), page 201-206.
Publisher: ACM,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9216-7/22/05
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Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC '22), May 2-5, 2022, Shanghai, China
Publisher: IEEE,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-6654-9538-7/22
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Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC '22), May 2-5, 2022, Shanghai, China
Publisher: IEEE,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-6654-9538-7/22
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ACM Transactions on Internet of Things,
3(2)
May
2022
ISSN: 2691-1914
DOI: 10.1145/3502265
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Document number: draft-irtf-coinrg-use-cases-02
Internet Engineering Task Force,
March
2022
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering,
10(1)
January
2022
DOI: 10.3390/jmse10010112
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Interconnected network protection systems - the basis for the reliable and safe operation of distribution grids with a high penetration of renewable energies and electric vehicle
Proceedings of the CIRED workshop on E-mobility and power distribution systems 2022, June 2-3, 2022, Porto, Portugal
2022
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2021 | |
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER '20), co-located with the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '20), December 7-11, 2020, Austin, TX, USA
Publisher: ACSA,
December
2021
ISBN: 978-1-891562-81-5
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Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Evolution, Performance and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ '21), page 15–21.
Publisher: ACM,
December
2021
ISBN: 9781450391351
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The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT '21)
Publisher: ACM,
December
2021
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9098-9/21/12
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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.