Student Advisory Board

Bruno Basner is a junior at Wharton, concentrating in Statistics and Finance. He is the Co-President of the Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club (WUSBC) and is keen on pursuing a career that combines his interest in sports and statistics.

Outside of WUSBC, Bruno serves as the Internal Vice President of the Assembly of International Students (AIS) and the President of the Penn German Society. In his free time, he enjoys supporting the German soccer team Borussia Dortmund and watching Formula 1.

David Bromberg is an MBA candidate at the Wharton School, with concentrations in Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Real Estate. David serves as the Co-President of the Wharton AI & Analytics club and is actively involved in the Wharton Latino Student Association (WHALASA). During the summer of 2025, he joined Amazon as a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Seattle office. Prior to school, David gained experience at Bank of America and later at an early-stage FinTech startup, where he advised and trained clients on quantitative risk management, led systems onboarding and integrations, and collaborated with data engineers to deliver high-touch technical projects. Outside of his professional endeavors, David is a passionate follower of Italian soccer, especially AC Milan, and will never say no to an all-you-can-eat sushi.

Katherine Comer, W’26, is studying Statistics at Wharton. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Wharton Sports Analytics Journal and is passionate about connecting talented students with an avenue to showcase their novel findings in sports research.

In addition, she heads the Penn Sports Analytics Group Baseball Committee, where she works to provide the Penn Baseball team with performance and scouting insights and works on her own sports research projects through the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative’s Sports Research Seminar.

Also, around campus, Katherine is a part of the Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club and Women Who Lift at Penn. In her free time, she can be found watching a new show or getting in a workout!

Anjali Dhupam is a junior from Atlanta, GA in the Huntsman Program studying business and international studies. She currently serves as Co-Director for WAGIC.

At Penn, she is part of the Kleinman Center Student Council, Wharton Wellness Board, and Engineers Without Borders.

Akhila Guttikonda is a senior in the College, studying Neuroscience and Nutrition Science. She is the Co-President of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Student Society (WiNSS). She is pursuing a career in medicine and is especially interested in leveraging AI to improve healthcare delivery and management.

Outside of WiNSS, Akhila conducts translational neurogenetics research at CHOP and serves on the Educational Pipeline Board and the Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club Advisory Board. In her free time, she enjoys exploring Philly and hiking.

Ignacio Hounie, GrE’26 is a third-year doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research primarily focuses on optimization, signal processing and statistics applied to Machine Learning, and has published several papers in the area.

He is always enthusiastic about recent developments in ML and Data Science, and how these tools can help design complex real-world systems. He is originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, where he obtained a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from UdelaR, and then worked as a data engineer at MontevideoLabs.

Akshit Kalra is an MBA candidate at the Wharton School, majoring in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. He’s passionate about the intersection of AI and business and currently works as a Business Engagement Lead at Spencer’s, where he’s developing AI models to forecast sales trends and support the Planning Team.

Prior to Wharton, he served as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, building financial analytics tools for fixed-income trading desks. Outside work, Akshit is an avid runner who enjoys playing squash and guitar.

Athena is a junior in the college studying Biology, Data Science, and Healthcare Management. She currently serves as the Co-President for the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Student Society (WiNSS). She is interested in the future of AI for healthcare, construction, and energy infrastructure. Outside of WiNSS, she runs a newsletter called Intris, where she releases weekly AI updates across different industries.

Sean Lee is a junior at Wharton, concentrating in Finance and Entrepreneurship & Innovation. He is the Co-Founder and Co-President of AI@Penn, and serves as Vice President of Operations for the AI Business Club (AIBC). Sean also serves on the Admissions Dean’s Advisory Board and is a Youth Ambassador for the United Nations in the Asia-Pacific region.

He has spoken at the UN General Assembly Summit of the Future on AI’s role in building a sustainable global economy, and at the StartmeupHK Festival, Asia’s leading InnoTech event, on integrating AI into corporate training and education. Sean is passionate about using AI to enhance consumer and retail experiences, and previously founded an AI chatbot startup for legal contract automation.

I’m a junior in the M&T program studying Electrical Engineering and Finance. I’ve been in WAF since freshman year, where I’ve built predictive models for web traffic with Zillow and computer vision for game analysis with Penn Athletics.

Outside of WAF, I’m involved with Penn Growth Equity and previously played Penn Men’s Hockey. I’m also working with world-class golf courses in Asia to develop computer vision-based golf technology suites.

Alok is a CIS and Math major from Pittsburgh, PA. He currently leads MLR@Penn and is a past member of Franklin DAO, Engineering Consultants at Penn (ECP), Wharton Undergraduate Fintech Club (WUFT), and Diversatech.

Outside of class, he spends the majority of his time researching ML and is fascinated by the growing synergies between academia and AI startups. In his free time, he loves history/geography trivia, traveling, trying new food trucks or restaurants around Philly, and burning off those calories by playing pickup soccer at Penn Park.

Felix Tam is passionate about AI and analytics and is currently an MBA Candidate at the Wharton School, majoring in Business Analytics and Quantitative Finance. He serves as Co-President of the Wharton AI & Analytics Club and will join Amazon as a Senior Product Management Intern in Summer 2025. At Wharton, he led a project with IKEA as a Business Engagement Lead in the Analytics Accelerator, helping optimize their e-commerce conversion through data-driven insights.

Prior to Wharton, Felix worked at Boston Consulting Group on AI and analytics strategy projects across industries, including a leading Asian telecom and a global luxury brand. Outside of work, he’s an avid Lakers fan and enjoys yoga, volleyball, and basketball.

Stefan Tsakalakis is a junior from San Francisco studying finance and marketing at Wharton. He has served as co-president of the AI Business Club for two years.

Stefan is interested in how the artificial intelligence boom is changing education, employment, and human creativity. To that end, he contributes to a weekly newsletter called AI 101 which critically dissects AI-related developments.

Praja Tickoo is a junior studying Economics at Wharton. He founded the AI Business Club at Penn and has served as co-president for the last two years.

He is a member of the ChatGPT lab and writes for a weekly newsletter called AI 101. Praja is interested in the intersection of AI, business and education. He enjoys basketball, tennis, squash, chess, and international soccer.

Aashika Vishwanath is a senior pursuing a BSE in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, minors in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Statistics from Wharton, and an accelerated MSE in Data Science from the School of Engineering. She has served as President of Wharton Undergraduate Data Analytics Club for 2 years, launching initiatives such as WUDAC’s annual datathon and Philadelphia school DS outreach program.

Aashika has also been a senior analyst at Wharton Analytics Fellows for 3 semesters, working with companies like IKEA and Petco to optimize conversion rates and marketing campaigns. Outside of Penn, Aashika has interned at Citi as an Investment Banking and Data Science analyst.

She is originally from Seattle, Washington, and loves Indian Classical dancing and painting in her free time.

Ethan Yu is a senior from Campbell, CA majoring in CIS, Mathematics, and Music and completing his masters in Robotics. He currently serves as Co-Director of WAGIC. At Penn, he captains Penn’s ICPC team, is concertmaster of the Penn Symphony Orchestra, and is a Piano Fellow in the Marian Anderson Performance Program.

Hansheng Zhu is a junior in Penn Engineering’s AI Program and the Founder/Co-President of AI@Penn. He contributes to open-source projects in computer vision and LLM systems (e.g., SciChartVision for scientific-figure understanding) and has shipped cloud-deployed ML services.

Originally a Math Olympiad competitor and clarinet soloist from Hong Kong, he now builds AI tools to democratize music learning. His research interests include multimodal learning (vision-language models), resilient software design, and health/biomedical AI. He recently co-authored a paper on vision-language models stemming from his dense captioning project.

Hansheng has held roles with the Penn Summer AI Lab as a Backend Engineer, Astoria AI as a Software Developer, and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as a Deep Learning Research Intern.