Ifechukwudeni Oweh, a 16-year-old native of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has been offered an internship opportunity by Apple, a US-based multinational technology company.

According to Tarleton News, the newspaper arm of Tarleton University, Texas, where Oweh is currently a computer science major, the Apple internship in software engineering is expected to last for four months.

Oweh, fondly called Teddy by his course mates, graduated from Chokhmah International Academy, Port Harcourt, at the age of 14.

After spending a year working for software companies in Nigeria and improving on his coding skills, he moved to Tarleton for his bachelor’s degree in 2022.

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During his internship, he is to work with Apple’s wireless technologies and ecosystem team by analysing data from Apple devices in a bid to improve embedded artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.

“This is a big accomplishment for Teddy and affirms Tarleton’s engineering programs as among the best in the nation,” said Rafael Landaeta, the school’s college of engineering dean.

“Our faculty and student researchers are breaking boundaries and achieving breakthroughs. Teddy is at the forefront.”

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Before securing the internship opportunity, Oweh had researched algorithms for machine learning models in the school’s department of computer science and electrical engineering, disease spread using stochastic processes on networks and differential equations in the department of mathematics, and computational modelling for Tarleton Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research to support environmental and agricultural advancements.

The internship is the first for the university since 1899, when it was established.