Student Advisory Board

Shawn Bhalla, WG’23 is a Wharton MBA candidate from Rockville, Maryland. He attended The University ofTexas at Austin where he studied electrical engineering. After his time at UT, Shawn worked in the semiconductor industry at Texas Instruments doing product management and product marketing. Shawn went on to work for the government of India in New Delhi at Invest India, where he focused on attracting technology companies into the country to set up their manufacturing and other operations. At Wharton, Shawn is co-president of the Analytics Club, a Student Life Fellow, and a Venture Fellow. Outside of Wharton, Shawn works with his father to grow his family business and enjoys traveling ,snowboarding, playing chess, and hanging out with friends.

Ankit Kohli, WG’23 is a Wharton MBA candidate, with a concentration in Business Analytics. He is co-president of the Wharton Analytics Club. Prior to Wharton, Ankit studied Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong, and has subsequently worked in software engineering and product management roles in financial services, most recently as a Technical PM intern at PayPal. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, reading, and playing badminton.

Ignacio Hounie, GrE’26 is a second-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.