Nilesh Jain / Arnaiya

Researcher at Yale • Founder • Educator • Lifelong Learner

About Me

Currently at Yale doing neuroscience and building TryBibby.com (Bibby AI)

What I'm Up To
  • Podcasting - https://calendly.com/nilesharnaiya
  • Working on Trybibby.com
  • Working on pybooks.com
  • Working on mathvideo.ai - https://v0-math-video-landing-page.vercel.app/
  • Working on upcourse.io
  • Previously built Buildawn.com, codeuplab.com
  • Previously helped organize IndabaX, part of communities like The Residency and Imbizo.africa
  • Creating Mr. Bean-inspired 3blue1brown coding tutorials on instagram and youtube for fun
Currently Building
  • Trybibby.com – Cursor for writing research
  • Upcourse.io – Interactive education labs to learn anything
  • Pybooks.com – Jupyter notebooks for teachers
  • Mathvideo.ai – Create 3blue1brown style animated videos
  • CodeUpLab – Helping students learn programming and data science
  • NavalNow – Naval Ravikant's wisdom distilled
  • 1Kitchen POS – Restaurant management software
Things I Love

Hobbies

  • Yoga
  • Reading
  • AI Art
  • Astronomy
  • Public Speaking
  • Walking

Activities

  • Traveling anywhere(solo & with friends)
  • Mentoring
  • Volunteering
  • Sending long emails
  • Surfing

Passions

  • Teaching
  • Content Creation
  • Gift-Giving
  • Cycling
  • Animated visual learning

Interests

  • Human Behavior
  • Any brain or story books
  • Economics
  • Cricket
  • Rafting
  • Naruto
  • Mr. Bean

Projects

Building tools and platforms to make education more accessible and effective

Animated Visual Learning

Creating engaging animated content to explain complex concepts in simple, visual ways. Making learning accessible and fun through animation.

Education
Animation
Visual Learning
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Upcourse.io

Interactive education labs to learn anything. A platform designed to make learning engaging and effective through hands-on labs.

Education
Interactive
E-learning
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Pybooks.com

Jupyter notebooks for teachers. Empowering educators with interactive computational tools for better teaching experiences.

Education
Python
Jupyter
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Neuroscience Adventures

Exploring the world of open-source through Linux. Tutorials, tips, and tricks for both beginners and advanced users.

Linux
Open Source
Programming
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Bibby - The Research writing assistant you need

Learning to code with latex and writing research papers is a pain. We simplified it with AI and better UI+UX principles

Humor
Coding
Education
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Jainism

Combining my passion for teaching in religion through gamification.

Travel
Remote Work
Coding
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My Journey

A path of exploration and exploitation, coming soon

The Beginning

Early Days

I learned to code at 17 – late by today's standards. This sparked a passion for lifelong learning.

Self-Education

Learning Phase

I taught myself through platforms like edX, Udacity, and Coursera (when they were just starting!).

Overcoming Challenges

Resilience

After failing 12th grade, I bounced back by diving into internships, self-taught skills, and exploring the tech world.

Bangalore Adventures

Exploration

Bangalore became my second home, where I soaked up knowledge, collected swag, and ate a lot of free pizza at tech meetups.

World Travels

Global Experience

Exploring South Africa, Europe, and Asia while teaching and coding. Every place added new perspectives to my work.

Founding Projects

Entrepreneurship

Started multiple projects including Trybibby.com, Upcourse.io, Pybooks.com, etc.

Yale Research

Present

At Yale as a research associate, continuing my journey in academia and research to experience it one last time

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Cloud
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Writings & Talks

Sharing knowledge, experiences, and insights through articles and presentations

Connect with Me

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Mountain Foreground

Recommendations

Books and movies that have shaped my thinking and perspective

Models of the mind
by Grace lindsey

A fascinating exploration of human history that changed my perspective on our species' development.

History
Anthropology
Science
Grasp
by Sanjay Sharma

Brilliant insights into how we think about education online. Essential for understanding human behavior.

Psychology
Behavioral Economics
Decision Making
Seven and a half lessons
by Lisa Feldman

Changed my perspective on the brain. A must-read for anyone interested in building something new.

Business
Startups
Innovation
Valley
Valley Foreground

Why You Should Date Me

A slightly tongue-in-cheek but honest look at what I bring to the table

The Multilingual Nomad

Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and now the USA - my passport is basically a world tour diary.

Language skills: Hindi, Marwari, Gujarati, broken Marathi, a sprinkle of Kannada, and enough Spanish to order tapas. Think United Nations, but with more chai.

Neuroscience fun fact: Each language you learn creates new neural pathways, essentially giving your brain a cognitive workout. My brain's basically an Olympic gymnast at this point.

💬 Anecdote: Once tried explaining quantum physics in Marwari. Spoiler: It didn't go well, but hey, at least my brain tried!