Brian Lent is a data science pioneer who has been at the forefront of data mining, machine learning, forward-thinking analytics, and leading-edge AI technology for over three decades.

As the co-founder and CEO of Plunk, Lent is building the first real-time home analytics platform. With a world-class team of data scientists, Lent is bringing advanced data mining, AI & ML algorithms to the world’s largest asset class — residential real estate. Prior to Plunk, Lent founded the big data analytics company Medio Systems, supporting 440+ million consumers in over 100+ countries. In 2014, Medio was acquired by Nokia (HERE Technologies), after which Lent was promoted as Chief Technology Officer. Previous to HERE Technologies, Lent spent most of his career leading groundbreaking technology work for companies including SGI, IBM, Intelligent Results (fintech analytics acquired by First Data Corp) and Junglee, which was acquired by Amazon in 1998 where Lent created the company’s first data mining group, formed its analytic infrastructure and integrated Junglee’s product recommendation engine into Amazon’s data-driven consumer experiences and predictive analytics systems.

While earning his master's and Ph.D. candidacy at Stanford University in Computer Science, he co-founded Mining Data at Stanford (MiDAS), the research lab which incubated the Google crawler and search engine in 1994. As a recipient of both the prestigious National Science Foundation and Department of Defense Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowships, Lent is a key industry thought leader and author of numerous professional publications and patents.