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Joel Niklaus is currently an AI Resident at (Google) X, researching legal reasoning with LLMs. Joel Niklaus is a PhD
student at the University of Bern working in the field of multilingual legal NLP. Previously he interned at Thomson
Reuters Labs where he investigated efficient domain-specific pretraining approaches. He visited Stanford University
supervised by Prof. Dan Ho, conducting research on large language models in the legal domain. He has extensive
experience in pretraining and finetuning large language models for diverse tasks and on diverse compute environments.
His research focuses on dataset curation to train and evaluate language models multilingually for the legal domain. He
serves as an advisor to companies specializing in the applications of modern NLP to legal challenges. He holds a
Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bern, specializing in Data Science, where he developed a
High-Human AI for the Swiss card game Jass. Since 2015, Joel Niklaus is teaching at Swiss high schools and universities.
Joel Niklaus is a Postdoc and Lecturer at the University of Bern and Bern University of Applied Sciences. Previously, he
was an AI Resident at (Google) X, training multi-billion parameter LLMs on hundreds of TPUs and achieving
state-of-the-art performance on LegalBench. At Thomson Reuters Labs he investigated efficient domain-specific
pretraining approaches. He visited Stanford University supervised by Prof. Dan Ho, conducting research on large language
models in the legal domain. He has extensive experience in pretraining and finetuning large language models for diverse
tasks and on diverse compute environments. His research focuses on dataset curation to train and evaluate language
models multilingually for the legal domain and laid the groundwork for legal NLP in Switzerland. He serves as an advisor
to companies specializing in the applications of modern NLP to legal challenges. He holds a PhD in Natural Language
Processing, a Master's in Data Science and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Bern.

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