Casey J. Zampella, Ph.D.

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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
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.
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Selected Publications

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.

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): 1-15, 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.

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, November 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1177/13623613241301113. Epub 2024 Nov 19.

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.

McDonald, D., Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C. J., DeJardin, E., Herrington, J. D., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B.: Predicting autism from head movement patterns during naturalistic social interactions. 7th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics Page: 55-60, May 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1145/3608298.3608309. Epub 2023 Oct 18.

Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C.J., DeJardin, E., Herrington, J.D., Schultz, R.T., & Tunc, B.: Comparison of human experts and AI in predicting autism from facial behavior. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3359: 48-57, March 2023 Notes: Epub 2023 Mar 16.

McDonald, D., Zampella, C.J., Sariyanidi, E., Manakiwala, A., DeJardin, E., Herrington, J.D., Schultz, R.T., & Tunc, B.: Head movement patterns during face-to-face conversation vary with age. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Page: 185-195, November 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1145/3536220.3563366. Epub 2022 Nov 7.

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