Adaptive Research Discovery with Obsidian and Agent Skills

Hosted by Amir Feizpour and Percy (Boqi) Chen

Fri, Jun 5, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Research Relevance Is Dynamic

Why related-work discovery must adapt as the project direction changes.

Using Notes as Project Context

How Obsidian notes and wikilinks can provide structured context for AI-assisted research.

Building an Agent Skill Workflow

How Python and the Obsidian CLI can be combined into a reusable research helper.

Context-Aware Literature Discovery

Techniques for gathering related work based on evolving project context rather than fixed keywords.

Summarizing Project Drift

How the same process can surface what has changed in the project over time.

Why this topic matters

Researchers increasingly use AI tools, but most workflows still rely on static prompts and one-off searches. This session shows how personal knowledge systems can become active research infrastructure, enabling agents to reason from evolving project context. The result is a more adaptive, durable workflow for literature discovery, synthesis, and research direction-setting.

You'll learn from

Amir Feizpour

Founder @ Aggregate Intellect

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (business executives to hands-on developers) through training and educational programs. Amir leads Aggregate Intellect’s R&D via several academic collaborations.

Percy (Boqi) Chen

Assistant Professor @ University of Ottawa

Boqi Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, where his research focuses on reliable and robust integration of AI systems—including LLMs and multi-agent workflows—into software engineering processes. His work spans agentic workflow design, model-based validation, and evaluating ML systems for tasks such as code generation, bug detection, and code summarization. Boqi completed his PhD in Software Engineering at McGill University and has worked across both academic and applied R&D environments

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