Casey J. Zampella, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research, Office 5322
2716 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
2716 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Education:
B.S. (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
University of Rochester, 2007.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2013.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2017.
Permanent linkB.S. (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
University of Rochester, 2007.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2013.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2017.
Selected Publications
Kostick-Quenet, K., Hurley, M. E., Ayaz, S., Herrington, J. D., Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Tunc, B., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Blumenthal-Barby, J. S., & Storch, E. A. : Stakeholder perspectives on humanistic implementation of computer perception in health care: qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health January 2026 Notes: doi: 10.2196/79182.Rai, A., Hurley, M. E., Herrington, J. D., Storch, E. A., Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Sonig, A., Lazaro-Munoz, G., & Kostick-Quenet, K.: Stakeholder criteria for trust in artificial-intelligence-based computer perception tools in healthcare: A qualitative interview study. Journal of Medical Internet Research December 2025 Notes: doi: 10.2196/78757.
Yu, Y. Y., Wyman, A., Faulk, C. J., Fulop, L. J., Greenberg, R. L., Benecke, R. B., Steinbeck, L. K., Foy, J., Kim, C., Emory, G. O., Storch, E. A., Zampella, C. J., Yerys, B. E., Schultz, R. T., Parish-Morris, J. B., Herrington, J. D., & Clements, C. C. : An examination of racial bias in scoring the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) Module 3: An item response theory analysis. Autism Research December 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1002/aur.70155.
Sonig, A., Deeney, C., Hurley, M. E., Storch, E., Herrington, J. D., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Zampella, C. J., Tunc, B., Parish-Morris, J., Blumenthal-Barby, J. S., & Kostick-Quenet, K. : Ethical concerns of using computer perception technologies among pediatric patients. AI and Ethics 5: 3593-3607, August 2025.
Zampella, C.J., Parish-Morris, J., Foy, J., Cola, M., Schultz, R.T., & Herrington, J.D.: “You should smile more”: Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people. Autism 29(5): 1236-1245, May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1177/13623613241301113. Epub 2024 Nov 19.
Sonig, A., Deeney, C., Hurley, M., Storch, E. A., Herrington, J., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Zampella, C. J., Tunc, B., Parish-Morris, J., Blumenthal-Barby, J., & Kostick-Quenet, K.: What patients and caregivers want to know when consenting to the use of digital behavioral markers. NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience 2: 19, December 2024 Notes: doi.org/10.1038/s44277-024-00022-9.
Gokmen, M., Sariyanidi, E., Yankowitz, L., Zampella, C. J., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B.: Detecting autism from head movements using kinesics. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Page: 350-354, November 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1145/3678957.3685711. Epub 2024 Nov 4.
Richardson, A.A., Zampella, C.J., & Bennetto, L.: “Look who’s talking”: Language complexity in autistic and non-autistic youth across different conversation partners. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders October 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10803-024-06576-z. Epub ahead of print.
Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C.J., Schultz, R.T., & Tunc, B.: Inequality-constrained 3D morphable face model fitting. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 46(2): 1305-1308, February 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3334948. Epub 2024 Jan 8.
de Marchena, A., Zampella, C.J., Dravis, Z., Pandey, J., Mostofsky, S., & Schultz, R.T.: Measuring dyspraxia in autism using a five-minute praxis exam. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 106: 102200, August 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102200. Epub 2023 Jun 24.