PZ Career Discovery: Data Scientist at OpenAI Abe Sprague '13

Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Time: 6pm - 6:50pm
Location: Atherton Hall, PIT, Room 103 , Pitzer Hall, 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, USA

Kicking off the 2026 Spring PZ Career Discovery Alumni Speaker Series:Abe Sprague ’13, Data Scientist at OpenAICareer Highlights: 
Lead data science helping launch Coinbase Advanced Retail Trading
Creating the official “Coinbase Volatility Index” (a metric used today in the company’s public reporting to measure how volatile the crypto industry is)
Joining Coinbase when it was a ~small startup and watching it develop into an Enterprise company and go public
OpenAI – Creating model to predict future customer value of sales managed accounts
Special Expertise:Analytics engineering (building data sets) and executive/business reportingSprague’s path to get into data science started by implementing HR technology systems at Deloitte, to HR, to Data SciencePitzer Years: Sprague majored in Organizational Studies and Economics, with Intro to Computer Science as favorite class, Robert Day Scholars program, and chaired the Pitzer Student Activities committee

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