Shlok Sheth

Data science and applied statistics student at Purdue University

Expertise: Data science, artificial intelligence, software engineering perspectives

Education: Purdue University

Shlok Sheth is a data science and applied statistics student at Purdue University in the class of 2027. He worked as a forward deployed engineer at a YC-backed startup and currently conducts ML and computer vision research with Prof. Bowei Xi in the Department of Statistics, co-authoring two papers and contributing to a CRC Press book chapter on LLM vulnerabilities under adversarial attacks. He co-founded The Data Exchange at Purdue, a student-run data consulting initiative, and co-founded the Business Data Analytics in Advanced Manufacturing program under Purdue’s Vertically Integrated Projects.

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Updated on May 07, 2026

What Data Science Students Need to Know Before Their First Job

As graduates get ready to leave academia for the workforce, our expert has some lessons from his time in a real working environment.

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