Takehiro Nakamura received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. In 1992, he transferred to NTT DOCOMO, Inc. He is now Director of the Radio System Design Group of NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Mr. Nakamura has been working for research and development of the W-CDMA. He has been engaged in the W-CDMA standardization activity at ARIB in Japan since 1997 and he is currently the leader of the IMT-Partnership Group in ARIB since March 2006. He had contributed to standardization activities in 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 as a vice chairman during 1999-2001. He has been attending 3GPP TSG RAN since 1999 and he is currently a vice chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN since March 2005. He has been the rapporteur for LTE and LTE-Advanced in 3GPP TSG-RAN since December 2004 and March 2008, respectively.