MEDIC Engineer winner of the Deloitte Adward: Best bachelor thesis of the academic year 2019-2020!

During the last 25th of Febraury, the event “Learn about the best TFG of the 2019-20 academic year and how Deloitte participates in innovative and entrepreneurial projects” took place in the Autonomous University of Madrid. This time online, as a result of the current situation. Among other attendees, representing the UAM was Mr. Javier Ortega García, Vice-rector of Innovation, Transfer and Technology, who made the introduction to the event, and from Deloitte, Mr. Francisco Faraco, Partner at Deloitte – Fraud Prevention, who gave the award to the winner of the best bachelor thesis at the E.P.S. during the 2019-20 academic year, enrolled in Cybersecurity, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence categories. As it was said in the event ‘At Deloitte we reward talent and innovation with initiatives of this type’.

In this occasion the awarded was our engineer Ignacio Salinas Sánchez for his work “Development of a Calibration system for a Visual Simulation device”. The medical device was the SimVis developed by 2eyesVision: a system that prescribes multifocal lenses allowing patients to know if they adapt correctly to their needs before to surgical implantation.

The project consists not only of a software part that includes three main modules: camera, communication and image processing but also a hardware prototype with the function of carrying out verification and validation tests.

“It has been a unique opportunity and a pleasure to collaborate in the development of medical devices with the objective of helping other people, which gives you an added bonus of desire, energy and enthusiasm”, were some of Ignacio’s words.

The Jury also awarded some Special Mentions with their corresponding Diploma of Recognition to Alberto Ruiz Guijosa, Marta Simón Pinacho and Diego Sainz de Medrano Otero, for the quality of their works submitted to the contest.

In addition, during the session other topics were discussed such as Smart Stadiums, Gaming projects, “a life experience” by Álvaro Pérez (Senior Analytical Consultant at Google) and finally a success story from the entrepreneurship office of the UAM – UAM Emprende.

Thank both, Deloitte and UAM for giving us the opportunity to participate in this kind of innitiatives, where all the work, effort and time invested in these projects is recognized.