Dean Abbott

Dean Abbott is the chief data scientist of Appriss Retail. With more than three decades of experience, he is an internationally recognized thought leader and innovator in data science and predictive analytics. He has solved problems in customer analytics, fraud detection, risk modeling, text mining, and survey analysis.

Prior to joining Appriss Retail, Dean co-founded and was the chief data scientist at SmarterHQ, which later merged with Wunderkind. Additionally, Dean is the founder and president of Abbott Analytics and was the Bodily Bicentennial Professor of Analytics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business from 2023-2024. He is the author of “Applied Predictive Analytics” (Wiley, 2014) and serves on the advisory board for several university data science programs.

Dean holds a bachelor’s degree in computational mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia.