Bastien Lechat is an expert in the fields of machine learning, signal processing, epidemiology, and clinical sleep research. He has a BSc in Engineering Science and Acoustics (Le Mans, France) and is near completion of his PhD in biomedical engineering at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University. His work addresses important knowledge gaps regarding the consequences of disrupted sleep on health, as well as using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms to more efficiently detect and treat sleep disorders and their pathology.