Karan Singla
CEO And Founder at WhissleAI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Singla is a research-driven founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building multimodal speech and language systems, currently leading Whissle to deliver real-time, context-aware intelligence from audio and video streams. He holds a PhD from USC (SAIL Lab) and previously led inventive research at Interactions LLC on transformer-based MT, end-to-end speech understanding, and multimodal token-level classification. Karan blends deep academic rigor with product-minded engineering—shipping low-latency tonal and conversational intelligence for downstream applications. He has a long track record mentoring GSOC projects on TV news processing and multimodal RAG, and every summer still guides students through applied AI/ML work. Outside work he’s a part-time soccer player, reflecting a competitive, team-oriented approach to building high-impact research products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMasters by Research, Computational Linguistics, Masters by Research, Computational Linguistics at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
English, Hindi
Github Skills (48)
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
machine-translation10
speech-synthesis10
multimodal10
text-normalization10
large-language-models10
nmt10
deep-learning10
generative-ai10
speaker-recognition10
natural-language-processing10
asr10
conversational-ai10
nlp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ksingla025/Speaker_Dia_RedHen
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ksingla025/pyAudioAnalysis3
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
python3 version of pyaudioanalysis
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
pyaudioanalysispythonpython3
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