In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- Not established in inspected records
- Birthplace
- Kediri, Indonesia
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nationality
- Not independently established
- Known for
- Wireless-communications researcher.
- Doctoral topic
- Peak-power reduction in radio and satellite communications
- Technical collaborator
- Heiichi Yamamoto
Why this life matters
His career makes a useful distinction between improving a communication technique and inventing an entire standard or communications system.
Timeline
Key moments
First degree
ITB telecommunications.
Technical presentation
NAIST operation-count comparison.
Career move
Telkom, according to the later self-profile.
From industry to graduate research
Anwar completed his ITB telecommunications degree in 2000 and worked as an SAP consultant in 2000โ2002. He earned NAIST masterโs and doctoral degrees in 2005 and 2008.
The early industry role and later research training involved different problems: adapting business software is not the same task as analysing a radio waveform.
Sources for this section: [1]
A specific computational contribution
His archived NAIST seminar compares conventional carrier-interferometry spreading with an FFT-based design and cites joint RWS work with Heiichi Yamamoto.
His graduate supervisors included Minoru Okada and Takao Hara.
The guide follows a precisely labelled multiplication-count model. A reduction in counted arithmetic is an engineering result under assumptions, not a measured improvement in every aspect of a mobile network.
Appointments and a continuing research direction
He held a NAIST appointment in 2008 before joining JAIST that September. A later self-profile dates his move to Telkom University to September 2016.
The research record ranges across coding, iterative processing and wireless communications.
Dated appointments explain an international career without converting an archived assistant-professor page into a claim about his present rank.
Sources for this section: [1]
Correcting a public label
In a 2016 interview, he rejected the simplified label โinventor of 4G LTEโ and described standards as agreements involving a forum.
That clarification matters to attribution. The selected technical record credits a particular design and collaborators; it does not establish sole authorship of a cellular generation. Neither a news slogan nor an award substitutes for reading the relevant standard and contribution history.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Khoirul Anwar
- Does this biography call him the inventor of an entire cellular generation?
- No. It explains a bounded technical contribution and credits collaborators.
- Do fewer counted multiplications prove better reception?
- No. Computational work and communication performance require different measurements.
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Place communication research alongside a different foundational approach to information.
Sources and further reading
Explore the evidence
These references support the biography and offer further reading. Official records, first-person accounts and independent reporting provide different perspectives; image records document attribution and licensing.
- 1. Khoirul Anwar / JAIST personal archiveKhoirul Anwar: CV
Old and later self-CV versions share one allowance. Patent and standard-adoption claims are not independently verified here.
- 2. Rachmatunnisa / detikInet, 17 March 2016Khoirul Anwar clarifies the โinventor of 4G LTEโ claim
The Indonesian clarification is paraphrased with attribution; it is not an independent priority ruling.
- 3. Khoirul Anwar / NAIST Communications Laboratory seminar, February 2006 archiveA Fast Computation without Divisions for Combiners in Carrier Interferometry OFDM System
