He Malagueño Enrique Martin Ocaña has been recognized with the award Young Software Engineer this year, a national award given by the ScotlandIS foundation which connects companies in the UK. Each university presented one student for the award and only five were nominated. Martin currently works as performance software engineer in the team Formula 1 from Aston Martin where he ran Fernando Alonso.

The engineer from Malaga has won this award for a project that connects two worlds he loves: technology and it teaching. “I am fortunate to have teachers who are very involved in education, but with more students in each class, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to offer personalized instruction to each student,” explains Martín. Therefore, the work he designed and won this award was to use Artificial Intelligence to offer personalized educational content to elementary and middle school students.

To check the level of interest in the project, he conducted an experiment in different schools that compared how students interacted with the content and with traditional content. Data shows that Artificial Intelligence content motivates them more and is more effective when learning. “Tools like this can help achieve the EU’s goal of reducing these numbers neglect schoolhe highlighted.

In a message on social networks, Martín recalled Bernardo Quinterocurrent director of security engineering at Google In Malaga. He accompanied the text with two images: “The first photo, Baños del Carmen 2015, was taken after an event where I heard Bernardo Quintero. When I left, I knew what I wanted to devote myself to. The second, in Edinburgh receiving an award for “Young Software Engineer of the Year”.

But he doesn’t stop there: “He was one of the great people responsible for putting Málaga on the map. I would like to thank him, above all, for the time he dedicated to education. It is very important to have references from the age of 15.”

That’s how this man from Malaga decided to leave Scotlandalthough he highlighted “I have no difficulty studying in Malaga, because the academic level is quite good, but I want to take advantage of the opportunity to be independent and go abroad.”

Thank you for the scholarships that the Scottish government provides to EU students before Brexit He studied software engineering at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. There, during college, he had the opportunity to spend 12 months interning as a software engineer. Disney in London. “It’s not easy to get it, but I learned how to work in top companies, the technology they use,” argued the man from Malaga.

Theirs perspective They will continue training for several years in their current jobs so that, in the near future, they can return to their hometown and dedicate themselves fully to this project.