The Data Grid: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Building the Soft Infrastructure of the AI Era (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) - Softcover

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Zhongyuan Thomas Lee (formerly Zhongyuan Li) is a doctoral researcher in Multidisciplinary Engineering at Texas A&M University. He also serves as a Staff Data Engineer at Compass, where he works on enterprise-scale data infrastructure. His research focuses on Industry 4.0/5.0 systems, digital twins, and AI-ready data infrastructures. He has published over twenty-five peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences. With more than fifteen years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, he has worked across multiple industries including power grids, telecommunications, finance, and healthcare.

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This book argues that AI’s true scalability and reliability hinge not just on algorithms, but on stable, governed, and semantically structured data systems. Across industries, fragmented and inconsistent data foundations constrain AI’s potential. By redefining data as infrastructure' imbued with stability, scalability, and lifecycle continuity, this volume establishes the structural foundation for sustainable intelligence.

Drawing from systems engineering, industrial engineering, reliability theory, and risk management, The Data Grid offers a cross-disciplinary framework for building AI-native data infrastructures. It shows how principles such as determinism, fault isolation, boundary control, and semantic layering can be adapted for enterprise-level data environments. Supported by engineering analysis and practical case studies, the book redefines data not as a static resource but as a continuously flowing soft infrastructure: an engineered backbone for resilient, long-term intelligent systems.