Frank Sauerburger
Frank became a self-employed software developer and consultant while studying Physics in Freiburg. During his Masters, he specialized in data analysis for particle physics at CERN and obtained a doctoral degree in 2022 working with the ATLAS collaboration. Since 2023, he has been the AI Technical Leader at MDPI, one of the largest open-access publishers.
MDPI
Session
The availability of AI models and packages in the Python ecosystem has revolutionized many applications across domains. This talk discusses infrastructural decisions and best practices that bridge the gap between interactive data analyses in notebooks and production applications at a reasonable scale, suitable for both commercial and scientific contexts. In particular, the talk introduces the on-premises, Python-based AI architecture employed at MDPI, one of the largest open-access publishers. The presentation emphasizes the impact of the design on reproducibility, decoupling of different resources, and ease of use during the development and exploration phases.