Welcome
Helmut Prendinger is a full professor at the National Institute of Informatics, where he works in the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division. He carries out research in the area of Artificial Intelligence, specifically Deep Learning and recently large language models (LLMs).
Helmut Prendinger has published extensively, more than 260 refereed papers in international journals and conferences, and book chapters, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, massively multi-user 3D networked virtual environments, affective computing, and Machine Learning/Deep Learning. His h-index is 49. He is a Top Scientist in Japan (Computer Science & Electronics).
The focus of his work relates to the NEDO ReAMo (Realization of Advanced Air Mobility) Project, where he is involved in two sub-projects (ground risk modeling and collision avoidance among high-speed drones).
A more recent interest is the prediction of the cryptocurrency market based on Deep Learning, LLMs, and time series foundation models.
Recent public talks, lectures, and live demos (some information in Japanese):
- Helmut Prendinger (Invited Lecture), Drone x AI, Advanced Robotics Foundation (ARF), 12 hours lecture on AI and Deep Learning for drones, 2019 - 2020
- Helmut Prendinger (Keynote Speaker), From Intelligent Drone Application to Intelligent Drone, Japan Drone Consortium Forum, November 12, 2019
- Helmut Prendinger (Keynote Speaker), From Intelligent Drone Application to Intelligent Drone, Center for Aerial Intelligent Vehicles Kick-off Symposium, October 11, 2019
- Helmut Prendinger (Invited Speaker), Jeju Forum for Peace & Properity, May 30, 2019
- Helmut Prendinger (Invited Speaker), TECHNO-FRONTIER 2019, International Drone Symposium, Drone x AI, April 19, 2019
- Helmut Prendinger, 1st UTM Symposium, Live Demo on Flight Plan Application and Approval Process (performed by Ruben Geraldes, Artur Goncalves, Bastien Rigault), March 27, 2019
- Helmut Prendinger (Panelist), Milken Institute Japan Symposium 2019, Panel on Enabling a Better Future: A Vision for AI, March 25, 2019
Helmut Prendinger co-edited (with Mitsuru Ishizuka from the University of Tokyo) a book on Life-Like Characters (tools, affective functions, applications), which was published in the prestigious Springer Cognitive Technologies series in 2004. In 2008, he organized (with James Lester and Mitsuru Ishizuka) the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'08) in Tokyo. He won the Best Paper Award at the Pacific-Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2000, and in 2004, he received the Future Program Special Contributor Award for his research in the Multi-modal Anthropomorphic Interface project of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His work on visual attentive presentation agents was awarded the best application of lifelike agents in the GALA competition held at the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents in 2006. He was also a Finalist for the COLING 2010 Best Paper Award. In 2015, his work on Cyber-Physical System simulation received the Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing for the Most Innovative Paper Published in 2014, in high impact Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering journal (2015 IF=4.925).