Roxy

Roxy

Professor & co-founder of YILA
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I’m a university professor teaching AI and data analysis to graduate students. Every week, my students asked me which AI skills to install and how to connect their agents to paper databases. Teaching the setup didn’t work, so we built YILA: a Codex-style research agent with real papers and research skills built in. I believe that if an AI agent needs a training course, it isn’t finished yet. My goal is to give researchers back the hours they lose to tool work, so they can spend them on the research itself. I also write about using AI in teaching and research.

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  • YILA
    YILACodex for research: real papers, editable figures, data chat
    Oct 2026
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YILA - Codex for research: real papers, editable figures, data chat

YILA is the Codex for research: an AI research agent with paper databases and research skills built in, so there’s nothing to set up. Ask in plain words, and it searches real papers across OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, Google Scholar and CNKI, writes literature reviews that link back to their sources, analyzes your data by running Python or R code you can inspect, and turns your work into editable figures, posters and slides that stay faithful to your papers.
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