Joel Niklaus

Researcher, Hugging Face
Joined
December 2021

Names

Joel Niklaus (Preferred)

Emails

****@joelniklaus.ch (Confirmed)
****@inf.unibe.ch (Confirmed)
****@bfh.ch (Confirmed)
****@niklaus.ai (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
2025Present
Researcher
Harvey (harvey.ai)
20242025
Postdoc
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
20242024
PhD student
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
20202024
Researcher
Stanford University (stanford.edu)
20222023
Intern
Thomson Reuters (thomsonreuters.com)
20222022
MS student
National Technological University (ntu.edu)
20192019
MS student
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
20182019
Undergrad student
University of Exeter (exeter.ac.uk)
20172017
Undergrad student
University of Bern, Universität Bern (inf.unibe.ch)
20132017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker
2025Present
PhD Advisor
20222025
Coauthor
20212024
PhD Advisor
20202024
PhD Advisor
20222023

Expertise

Synthetic Data
2025Present
Instruction Tuning
2023Present
Efficient Pretraining
2022Present
Domain Adaptation
2022Present
Benchmarking
2021Present
Legal Judgment Prediction
20212025
Legal NLP
20202025
Text Classification
20202025
Monte Carlo Tree Search
20192020
AI for Card Games
20192020
Indoor Positioning
20182019

Publications

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Co-Authors