# Parul Awasthy (slim)

> Parul Awasthy is first author at Granite Embedding R2 Models. Granite Embedding Small English R2 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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First author, Granite Embedding R2 Models.

## What Parul builds

- [Granite Embedding Small English R2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.md), graded E, 41.7/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. Granite Embedding Small English R2 is IBM's open-weight English text embedding model, a 47M-parameter ModernBERT bi-encoder that returns 384-dimension vectors for inputs of up to 8,192 tokens, trained on permissively licensed and IBM data, under Apache 2.0. First author, Granite Embedding R2 Models, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Charles Ranlett Flint](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-ranlett-flint/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- [George Winthrop Fairchild](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/george-winthrop-fairchild/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- [Herman Hollerith](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- [Inkit Padhi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/inkit-padhi/), First author, Granite Guardian paper (IBM Research)

## Questions

### Who is Parul Awasthy?

Parul Awasthy is first author at Granite Embedding R2 Models.

### What does IBM make?

Anchor Terminal lists Granite Embedding Small English R2 from IBM.

### How are Parul's tools graded?

Granite Embedding Small English R2 is graded E, 41.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2
- https://huggingface.co/pawasthy
- https://www.ibm.com/granite
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2/discussions

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