diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 6251529e54..6ed2587f8a 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -860,6 +860,9 @@ class TextModel(ModelBase):
         if chkhsh == "a1e163ecab2e718a4c829d1148b6e86824ec36163bb71941c3dca9cd5ac25756":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/JetBrains/Mellum-4b-base
             res = "mellum"
+        if chkhsh == "a0b64b4385f123663873756336c085744376d015ff328bb1d901598f63c44152":
+            # ref: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2
+            res = "modern-bert"
 
         if res is None:
             logger.warning("\n")
diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
index 575e05e193..6eeb1f64e3 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ models = [
     {"name": "lfm2",             "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-Tokenizer"},
     {"name": "exaone4",          "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/LGAI-EXAONE/EXAONE-4.0-32B", },
     {"name": "mellum",           "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/JetBrains/Mellum-4b-base", },
+    {"name": "modern-bert",      "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2", },
 ]
 
 # some models are known to be broken upstream, so we will skip them as exceptions