Mikael Kågebäck is Chief Technology & Product Officer at Sleep Cycle, a company that uses AI and signal processing to help people sleep better.Kågebäck started out as a software developer, then worked as a software architect, before going back to school to do a PhD in machine learning, with a focus on language and NLP.He joined Sleep Cycle around 2019 as a Research Scientist, initially tasked with building out the AI infrastructure and training models that could work across the app's 180+ countries. About a year later, he became the company's CTO and helped take the company public in 2021.