The director of VRAIN and ValgrAI, Vicent Botti, has received a Magno Award for Excellence 2025 for his career and contribution as a renowned researcher and pioneer in Spain and Europe in areas such as artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and agreement technologies.
The Magno Awards for Excellence 2025 have also distinguished Dr. María Josefa Ridaura, Dr. Juan Carlos Crespo, and Dr. Ana Lluch. These awards, given by the Professional Association of Doctors of the Valencian Community, recognise and celebrate the academic, scientific and human excellence of professionals who leave their mark on Valencian society and who honour the values of commitment, science and humanity.
Currently, Vicent Botti is also General Director at ValgrAI-Valencian Graduate School and Artificial Intelligence Research Network and University Professor at the UPV where he has also held several leadership positions such as Vice-Rector for Information and Communication Technologies Development and Director of several departments and schools.
Botti has a long career where he has contributed to excellence in his field of research. In the field of research he has more than 450 international publications including 160 publications in high impact journals, 2 research books, and 300 conference publications; he has participated in more than 98 competitive projects (European, national and regional) being principal investigator in 50 of them, in addition to 21 technology transfer contracts, and has directed more than 24 theses.
The VRAIN director at the UPV has contributed to the advancement of areas such as artificial intelligence where he has focused on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Multiagent Systems, Real-Time Intelligent Agents, Agreement Technologies and Affective Computing. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the José García Santesmases National Prize for Computer Science (2018), the AEPIA Recognition for a Scientific Career in AI (2005) and the Fellow of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence (2017).
The second gala of these awards, organised by the Professional Association of Doctors of the Valencian Community, was held in the Alfons el Magnànim hall of the La Beneficencia Cultural Centre of the Provincial Council of Valencia and featured a performance by the young 11-year-old pianist and violinist, Zihao Zou, a precocious talent on the music scene, and the group Lutz Cavero with the voices of Solenne Cavero, Nilda Lutz, Eliette Cavero, and Daniel Cavero on piano, who performed the Canon ‘Sanctus’.
During his speech, the president of the Professional Association of Doctors of the Valencian Community, José Tárrega, stressed that “the fact that more and more people can access the title of Doctor does not mean that it currently has sufficient recognition and leadership that it deserves in a new stage of society, which is the aim of this association. Moreover, for this recognition, we need the help of the regional and state administration, together with that of the public and private universities”.
The director of VRAIN and ValgrAI of the UPV, Vicent Botti, who has been distinguished along with the other award winners with a lithograph by the international artist Antonio Camaró, explained that this award ‘is shared with all the people who have worked with me throughout my professional career in which I have directed more than 24 doctoral theses and also with my family’, and stressed that ‘throughout my professional career I have always tried to combine applied and scientific research in my teaching and research activity’.
