AI/ML Club - Obi

Semester: Spring 2026
Project Duration: January 2026 - May 2026

Project Description

Obi is a privacy-first knowledge assistant that transforms a directory into an intelligent search and question-answering system. It uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation with local embeddings and a self-hosted language model to help users search, retrieve, and reason over their personal notes/files fully offline.

Project Metadata: docs/info.json

Key Objectives:

• Transform markdown notes into a searchable knowledge base
• Retrieve relevant note context for grounded question answering
• Run embeddings and language models locally for privacy
• Help students, researchers, and knowledge workers discover ideas faster

Lead Contact Information

Project Lead: Xingran Du
📧 Email: xingran.du@sjsu.edu
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-du/
🐙 GitHub: @durpdur
💬 Discord: @durpdur

Contributors

For detailed member information including LinkedIn profiles and Discord handles, see docs/members.csv.

Name	Role	Email	GitHub
Xingran Du	Project Lead	xingran.du@sjsu.edu	@durpdur

Project Documents

• Member List (CSV)
• Project Metadata (JSON)

Repository Structure

[project-repo-name]/
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE
├── docs/
│   ├── members.csv
│   ├── info.json
│   ├── thumbnail.webp
│   └── pitch_slides.pdf
└── [additional_folder]/

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