Heye Vöcking
Heye Vöcking

Senior Data Engineer

Heye Vöcking is a senior data engineer and independent AI-alignment researcher. He specialises in converting data into actionable knowledge, stress-testing large language models, and designing scalable knowledge-graph architectures.

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Interests
  • LLM Alignment & Safety
  • Knowledge Graph Engineering
  • AI-Augmented Interfaces
  • Distributed & Real-Time Systems
  • Mechanistic Interpretability
  • Bitcoin & Austrian Economics
Education
  • M.Sc. Computer Science

    Technical University of Berlin

  • M.Sc. Computer Science (exchange)

    上海交通大学 Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • B.Sc. Informatik (Computer Science)

    University of Hamburg

Mission
I am a curious builder who learns in public. I translate new understanding into web-native knowledge structures that people and agents can locate, trust, and use. I architect scalable knowledge systems, probe language models for alignment failures and design ways for models to expose meaning and failure modes in interpretable, steerable formats. Through independent research, writing, and open collaboration, I work toward AI that is interpretable, safe, and epistemically honest to serve humanity’s long-term well-being. If this resonates, reach out.
Research & Publications

Academic work and research contributions

Bluestreak — Privacy-Aware User Segmentation for Online Advertisement Using Logistic Regression
Bluestreak — Privacy-Aware User Segmentation for Online Advertisement Using Logistic Regression

A TypeScript/JavaScript library and server-side component that shifts age- and gender-segment prediction into the user’s browser, ensuring all sensitive data remains on-device and on ly anonymous segment labels are sent back to the ad server. By training an L1-regularized logistic regression model on a real-world RTB dataset, Bluestreak improves age-segment accura cy by 4 pp and gender accuracy by 2 pp over a User-Agent-based baseline, without relying on cookies or fingerprinting and adding minimal load-time and resource overhead. Fully GDPR-co mpliant and compatible with >95 % of modern browsers, it delivers privacy by design while preserving ad-targeting precision.

Mar 1, 2021

A Parallel Implementation of Grover’s Algorithm in a Quantum Simulator
A Parallel Implementation of Grover’s Algorithm in a Quantum Simulator

We used a simulated quantum computer to compare the performance of Grover’s search algorithm with a faster version proposed by Ozhigov. We discussed Ozhigov’s algorithm, provided an implementation, and analyzed its expected running times to confirm the claimed speedup.

Jun 13, 2020

Evolving Locomotion for a Humanoid Robot
Evolving Locomotion for a Humanoid Robot

Evolving Locomotion for a Humanoid Robot is a bachelor’s thesis that presents an automated evolutionary framework for generating walking gaits on the DARwIn-OP platform. By encoding continuous-time recurrent neural networks (CTRNNs) as genotypes and leveraging a distributed Webots simulation infrastructure, the work explores oscillatory pattern generation, sensorimotor feedback integration, and the minimal hidden-layer requirements, demonstrating that at least four hidden neurons are essential for stable bipedal locomotion. The resulting system efficiently parallelizes tens of thousands of trials to evolve robust, transferable walking behaviors without manual tuning of control parameters.

Mar 1, 2013