Joel Niklaus is currently a visiting student researcher at Stanford University supervised by Prof. Dan Ho. He is also a PhD student in the research project NRP77 “Open Justice vs. Privacy” at the Digital Sustainability Research Center at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Bern. He researches in the field of multilingual legal Natural Language Processing. Previously he interned at Thomson Reuters Labs in the field of efficient language model pretraining. Joel Niklaus graduated in 2019 from the University of Bern with a Master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on Data Science and Sports Science. In his master thesis, he worked out artificial intelligence for Jass on the level of strong amateur players. Since 2016, Joel Niklaus has teaching experience at Swiss high schools and universities.