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Hoplite: P2P Network

A GRPC-based Peer-to-Peer network project using pseudorandom code as the encryption

DaMiTSQL + MS Thesis Experiments

Experiments for the DaMiTSQL Paper and the MS Thesis

VoxelAdv: Adversarial Semantic Attack Synthesis for 3D Data

A Voxel-Based Adversarial Semantic Attack Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline

DaMiT-SQL: Detecting and Mitigating Text-to-SQL Prompt Injection Attacks

Published in In the proceedings of 2025 IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and COmputiNg (CASCON), 2025

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Recommended citation: Zi Ding, Alexandros Labrinidis, "DaMiT-SQL: Detecting and Mitigating Text-to-SQL Prompt Injection Attacks." In the proceedings of 2025 IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and COmputiNg (CASCON), 2025.

An Embedding-Space Perspective Towards a Defense-in-Depth Mechanism for Prompt-to-SQL Attack (Prompt2SQLa)

Published in Thesis at University of Pittsburgh, 2026

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Recommended citation: Zi Ding, "An Embedding-Space Perspective Towards a Defense-in-Depth Mechanism for Prompt-to-SQL Attack (Prompt2SQLa)." Thesis at University of Pittsburgh, 2026.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate course, University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, 2023

Taught as a teaching assistant for the CS 1656 course: Introduction to Data Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Hosted weekly office hours, created assignments, and taught recitations.

Masters of Data Science Course Assistant

Graduate course, University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, 2025

Graded assignments for over eight courses now for the online MDS program at University of Pittsburgh.