Joel Niklaus (Preferred)
Joel Niklaus
Researcher, Hugging Face
- Joined December 2021
Names
Emails
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, ****@inf.unibe.ch (Confirmed)
, ****@bfh.ch (Confirmed)
, ****@niklaus.ai (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
2025 – Present
Researcher
Harvey (harvey.ai)
2024 – 2025
Postdoc
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
2024 – 2024
PhD student
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
2020 – 2024
Researcher
Stanford University (stanford.edu)
2022 – 2023
Intern
Thomson Reuters (thomsonreuters.com)
2022 – 2022
MS student
National Technological University (ntu.edu)
2019 – 2019
MS student
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
2018 – 2019
Undergrad student
University of Exeter (exeter.ac.uk)
2017 – 2017
Undergrad student
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
2013 – 2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Synthetic Data
2025 – Present
Instruction Tuning
2023 – Present
Efficient Pretraining
2022 – Present
Domain Adaptation
2022 – Present
Benchmarking
2021 – Present
Legal Judgment Prediction
2021 – 2025
Legal NLP
2020 – 2025
Text Classification
2020 – 2025
Monte Carlo Tree Search
2019 – 2020
AI for Card Games
2019 – 2020
Indoor Positioning
2018 – 2019