Akkharawet Inthasem

Akkharawet Inthasem, known more commonly by his nickname Nyai, is a French-Laotian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Helsinki. His areas of interest is in spectral decomposition, whatever that means.

He is famous for his association to his father, the Yellow-Eyed Stalker, former drug boss, and to his twin sister, Nitdavanh Inthasem (nickname “Nitnit”), the first Lao astronaut and youngest person to spacewalk at age 26. He is also known for being the last MMA Heavyweight champion of DREAM and a former Heavyweight champion in Muay Thai in the WBC.

He won the Paul Erdős Award in 2020 at age 29, the youngest person to ever do so, which he could have been proud of if he weren’t so surrounded by ridiculously high-achieving and interesting people.

Biographic information
Nyai and his twin sister were born at 9:40AM on the 21st of November in Auckland, NZ, out of wedlock. Their mother, Madame Noce, was a French-Laotian stage actress.

They moved to Vientiane before they could remember and moved in with their father, enrolling in public school in Laos. They enrolled into a French boarding school for grades 6 and 7, then returned to Vientiane and went to the Lycée français Josué Hoffet.

Upon graduating, Nyai went to the University of Rennes with a decent scholarship and got degrees in Mathematics and Physics. He then completed his Masters and then PhD in Mathematics at the UCL in London. He moved to Helsinki in 2017, upon obtaining his PhD at age 26.

Humanitarian activities
Nyai is “dubiously free from the law”, having a notable criminal record under his father’s wing between ages 15 and 18 in Vientiane, which he has admitted to bribing his way out of on the day that the statute of limitations expired, in 2016.

Though according to his father he “never really hurt anyone physically, and probably couldn’t have brought himself to even lightly shove someone too weak to defend themselves”, he was used to intimidate rival gangsters and debtors, who were often drug-addicted and “desperately poor”.

According to a colleague, he lied about being in his early 20s, and that he was only criminal by proxy: his main role was to “be big, have tattoos, and speak loudly”.

Nyai has on multiple occasions expressed deep regret for his involvement, and was an active participant in the destruction of his father’s drug empire in 2012. He has since been involved in much humanitarian organizing in Laos as an active member of the Mainland SEA Society for Solidarity, along with his twin sister.

All of his winnings from MMA and Muay Thai competitions since 2012 have been donated to the MSEASS fund to help the poor, especially those susceptible to drug addiction, human trafficking, and loan sharking. He officially retired from fighting in 2019.

Classics of Videogame
Nyai met Morgane Chen in London, where she was an undergraduate student. They were in a relationship for 3 years (2013-2016) and separated on friendly terms. They didn't interact with each other much, and neither of them knew that the other one got a position in the University of Helsinki, despite Morgane's arrival in Helsinki being only 7 months after Nyai. They worked in the same university for 3 years before Morgane seeing that Nyai won the Paul Erdős Award in the University paper. When they met each other again, they immediately started making those stupid Classics of Videogame videos, and the rest is history.

Miscelaneous Facts

 * Nyai is bisexual and came out to his family in high school, when he had his first boyfriend. The only one who was no supportive of him was his Muay Lao mentor, who he was soon leaving anyways


 * Nyai has a cat named Diesel whom he also refers to as "my son", "my foolish son" , "that fool of a man" , "absolute circus man" , "the clown bastard"