Ranjan Shettigar

Ranjan Shettigar

I’m passionate about blending technology with creativity.

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About

I focus on turning ideas into reality,

pushing the boundaries of innovation and artistry. Explore my projects to see how I combine skills and creativity to create unique and impactful solutions.

Work Experience

Intern | MIT

Manipal, Karnataka

  • Researched and fine-tuned OpenAI's Whisper models for Kannada, reducing Word Error Rate (WER) of Whisper-Small from 100.4% to 23.12% using Romanized Kannada text (IAST), resulting in 2x faster inference speed.
  • Developed Dhravani, a multilingual speech corpus collection tool using Flask, Google OAuth2, and PostgreSQL, enabling audio recording, validation, and automatic syncing to HuggingFace. Deployed for beta testing and presented at Manipal Entrepreneurship Summit 2025.
  • Created Type2Script, a browser extension for real-time transliteration across Indian languages, enhancing multilingual typing accessibility.

Intern | Exposys Data Labs

Bangalore, Karnataka

  • Developed "Namaste," a social media platform similar to Twitter, gaining practical experience in various aspects of web development.

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Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science & Engineering

NMAM Institute of Technology Nitte, Karkala | Karnataka

Diploma - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Indira Shiva Rao Polytechnic, Udupi | Karnataka

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