Sarik Dhungel is a full-time doctoral student in the NextG Wireless Lab at George Mason University. He is actively involved in experimental 5G/NextG wireless research, particularly, 5G/New Radio (NR) positioning system and Artificial Intelligence I driven cellular radio access networks. He has significant expertise in working with open‑source cellular software like OAI and srsRAN, software‑defined radios (SDRs), open radio access network (ORAN) components, and machine learning techniques for wireless communications, security, and networking.