Helmut Prendinger is a Full Professor at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo. He received the Master’s and Doctoral degrees in logic and artificial intelligence from the University of Salzburg, Austria. Previously, he held positions as a Research Associate and as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo. In 1996, he was a Junior Specialist at the University of California, Irvine. The current focus of his work is Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) and Machine Learning (ML), especially Deep Learning for drone use cases. His team contributes to developing the entire UTM system, including conflict detection and resolution methods, as part of a large-scale Japanese government project. Prendinger has published extensively; more than 230 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. His h-index is 38.