Casey J. Zampella, PhD
Areas of expertise: Assessment of autism spectrum disorder and co-occurring conditions
About Casey J. Zampella, PhD
Titles
Scientist II
Awards and Honors
2022, Emerging Innovator in Collaborative Science, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2022, Women in STEM, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2021, Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institute of Mental Health
2018, Student/Trainee Award, International Society for Autism Research
2018, Travel Award, University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Postdoctoral Program
2016-2017, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2016, Dissertation Grant, University of Rochester
2016, Discover Undergraduate Research Mentorship Grant, University of Rochester
2014, Helen and Vincent Nowlis Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester
2011-2012, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Fellowship, University of Rochester Medical Center
2007, Highest Distinction in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
2007, Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society
2007, magna cum laude, University of Rochester
2006, Reach Summer Research Fellowship, University of Rochester
2003, Rush Rhees Scholarship, University of Rochester
2003, National Merit Scholarship
Leadership and Memberships
Memberships in Professional Organizations
American Psychological Association (APA)
International Society for Autism Research (INSAR)
Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD)
Editorial and Academic Positions
Editorial Positions
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Autism
Autism Research
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Molecular Autism
Scientific Reports
Research Interests
Movement differences in autism Leveraging technology to advance autism detection and characterization Dyadic nonverbal social communication
Education & training
Graduate Degree
PhD in Clinical Psychology - Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
MA in Clinical Psychology - Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Monroe County, NY
Internship
Clinical Psychology - Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship
Clinical Psychology - Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications
2022
Wang, L. A. L., Petrulla, V., Zampella, C. J., Waller, R., & Schultz, R. T. (2022). Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin.
Cola, M., Zampella, C. J., Yankowitz, L., Plate, S., Petrulla, V., Tena, K., Russell, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2022). Conversational adaptation in children and teens with autism: Differences in talkativeness across contexts. Autism Research.
Cola, M., Yankowitz, L., Tena, K., Russell, A., Bateman, L., Knox, A., Plate, S., Cubit, L. S., Zampella, C. J., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T, & Parish-Morris, J. (2022). Friend matters: Sex differences in social language during diagnostic interviews. Molecular Autism, 13(5).
de Marchena, A., & Zampella, C. J. (2022). Motor skills in autism: A missed opportunity. Spectrum.
2021
Zampella. C. J., Sariyanidi, E., Hutchinson, A., G., Bartley, G. K., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B. (2021). Computational measurement of motor imitation and imitative learning differences in autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 362-370.
Zampella, C. J., Wang, L. A. L., Haley, M., Hutchinson, A. G., & de Marchena, A. (2021). Motor skill differences in autism spectrum disorder: a clinically focused review. Current Psychiatry Reports, 23(10), 64.
2020
Zampella, C. J., Bennetto, L., & Herrington, J. D. (2020). Computer vision analysis of reduced interpersonal affect coordination in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 13(12), 2133-2142.
Sariyanidi, S., Zampella, C. J., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B. (2020). Inequality-constrained and robust 3D face model fitting. European Conference on Computer Vision, 433-449.
Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C. J., Bartley, G. K., Herrington, J. D., Satterthwaite, T. D., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B. (2020). Discovering synchronized subsets of sequences: A large scale solution. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 9490-9499.
Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C. J., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B. (2020). Can facial pose and expression be separated with a weak perspective camera? IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 7171-7180.
Zampella, C. J., Csumitta, K. D., Simon, E., & Bennetto, L. (2020). Interactional synchrony and its association with social and communication ability in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(9), 3195-3206.
Holmes, L. G., Zampella, C. J., Clements, C., McCleery, J., Maddox, B. B., Parish-Morris, J., Schultz, R. T., & Miller, J. S. (2020). A lifespan approach to patient-reported outcomes and quality of life for autism. Autism Research, 13(6), 970-987.
Cola, M. L., Plate, S., Yankowitz, L., Petrulla, V., Bateman, L., Zampella, C. J., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2020). Sex differences in the first impressions made by girls and boys with autism. Molecular Autism, 11(49), 1-12.
2019
Hauser, M. B., Sariyanidi, E., Tunc, B., Zampella, C. J., Brodkin, E. S., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2019). Using natural conversations to classify autism with limited data: Age matters. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, 45-54.
2018
Parish-Morris, J., Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C. J., Bartley, G. K., Ferguson, E., Pallathra, A., Bateman, L., Plate, S., Cola, M., Pandey, J., Brodkin, E. S., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B. (2018). Oral-motor and lexical diversity during naturalistic conversations in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, 147-1157.
Abstracts (includes Posters and Scientific Presentations)
2022
Drye, M., Zampella, C. J., Fecher, M., Benecke, R., Cubit, L. S., Megginson, G., Steinbeck, L. K., Wang, L. A. L., Schultz, R. T., & Guthrie, W. (2022, May). Psychometric properties of broadband screening tools for developmental delays in infants at elevated and typical likelihood for autism. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
Fecher, M., Zampella, C. J., Drye, M., Benecke, R., Cubit, L. S., Megginson, G., Steinbeck, L. K., Wang, L. A. L., Schultz, R. T., & Guthrie, W. (2022, May). Caregiver concerns predict specific areas of adaptive functioning in infants at typical- and elevated-likelihood for autism. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
Cola, M. L., Yankowitz, L. D., Plate, S., Russell, A. S., Knox, A., Pelella, M. R., Leuzzi, M., Tena, K. G., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T. & Parish-Morris, J. (2022, May). Identifying homogeneous subgroups of autistic youth based on talkativeness. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
Knox, A., Tena, K. G., Russell, A. S., Pelella, M. R., Leuzzi, M., Zampella, C. J., Cola, M. L., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T. & Parish-Morris, J. (2022, May). Social motivation predicts behavioral compensation in autistic adolescents. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
2021
Zampella, C. J., Sariyanidi, E., Hutchinson, A. G., Bartley, G. K., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B. (2021, October). Computational measurement of motor imitation and imitative learning differences in autism spectrum disorder. Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. (Hybrid conference).
Zampella, C. J., Sariyanidi, E., Cubit, L. S., Drye, M., Fecher, M., Steinbeck, L., Wang, L. A. L., Bartley, G. K., Tunc, B., Schultz, R. T., & Guthrie, W. (2021, May). Computational analysis of interactional synchrony: A novel measure of autism risk. Paper presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting. (Virtual conference)
Cola, M., Yankowitz, L., Tena, K., Plate, S., Bateman, L., Russell, A., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2021, May). Friend matters: Autistic girls talk more about friends during diagnostic interviews. Paper presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting. (Virtual conference)
Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Foy, J., Cola, M., Riiff, A., Haley, M., Hutchinson, A., Leuzzi, M., Cubit, L. S., Hulick, A., Bartley, G. K., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Herrington, J. D. (2021, May). Autistic girls smile more than autistic boys: Insights from computer vision. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting. (Virtual conference)
Steinbeck, L., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Drye, M., Fecher, M., Wang, L. A. L., Wallis, K., Miller, J. S., & Guthrie, W. (2021, May). Sex differences in universal autism screening using the M-CHAT in primary care. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting. (Virtual conference)
Wang, L. A. L., Petrulla, V., Zampella, C. J., Waller, R., & Schultz, R. T. (2021, April). Systematic review and meta-analysis of gross motor impairment in autism and relationships to social impairment. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting. (Virtual conference)
2020
Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Cola, M., Bartley, G. K., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Herrington, J. D. (2020, December). Autistic girls smile more than autistic boys: Insights from computer vision. Poster presented at the Penn PROMOTES Annual Symposium on Sex and Gender in Health. (Virtual conference)
Zampella, C. J., Capucilli, K., Pomykacz, A., Cola, M. L., Petrulla, V., Riiff, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., Parish-Morris, J. (2020, May). Validating the Contextual Assessment of Social Skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. (Conference canceled)
Guthrie, W., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., & Miller, J. S. (2020, May). Screening for developmental deceleration across domains: A new strategy for early autism detection. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. (Conference canceled)
Schultz, R. T., Bartley, G. K., Zampella, C. J., Sariyanidi, E., Guthrie, W., Pandey, J., Herrington, J. D., Tunc, B., & Parish-Morris, J. (2020, May). Digital assessment of social communication skills, arousal, and gross motor functioning in infants, toddlers, children, and adults. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. (Conference canceled)
Holmes, L. G., McCleery, J., Clements, C. C., Zampella, C. J., Maddox, B. B., Parish-Morris, J., Udhnani, M., Schultz, R. T., & Miller, J. S. (2020, May). Mental health and relationships of LGBQ youth on the autismspectrum. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Zampella, C. J., Cordero, L., Ferguson, E. F., Cola, M. L., Petrulla, V., Riiff, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., Parish-Morris, J., & Herrington, J. D. (2020, May). Toward a fully automated computer vision approach for measuring facial affect in ASD. Paper presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. (Conference canceled)
2019
Holmes, L. G., McCleery, J., Clements, C. C., Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Schultz, R. T., & Miller, J. M. (2019, November). Sexual and gender minority youth on the autism spectrum: Mental health and life satisfaction. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo, Philadelphia, PA.
Holmes, L. G., Clements, C., Zampella, C. J., Maddox, B., Parish-Morris, J., Udhnani, M., Schultz, R. T., Miller, J. S., & McCleery, J. (2019, November). Relationship and sexual functioning for autistic adults across the lifespan. Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Cola, M., Plate, S., Bateman, L., Riiff, A., Petrulla, V., Zampella, C. J., Yankowitz, L. D., Tunc, B., Herrington, J. D., Bartley, G. K., Sariyanidi, E., Kim, E. S., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T. & Parish-Morris, J. (2019, June). Naive thin-slice impressions reveal evidence of the female camouflage effect in ASD. Poster presented at the Penn PROMOTES Annual Symposium on Sex and Gender in Health Disparities, Philadelphia, PA.
Holmes, L. G., Zampella, C. J., Clements, C., Maddox, B. B., McCleery, J., Parish-Morris, J., Schultz, R. T., & Miller, J. S. (2019, May). Sexual and gender minorities with autism report more impaired quality of life: Nuances. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
Plate, S., Hauser, M., Sariyanidi, E., Cola, M., Zampella, C. J., Yankowitz, L., Riiff, A., Petrulla, V., Tunc, B., Herrington, J. D., Bartley, G. K., Kim, E., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. (2019, May). Do predictors in machine learning classification of ASD differ by age? Poster presented at the Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Zampella, C. J., Bartley, G. K., Sariyanidi, E., Tunc, B., Cola, M., Plate, S., Bateman, L., de Marchena, A., Kim, E. S., Herrington, J. D., Parish-Morris, J., Pandey, J., & Schultz, R. T. (2019, May). Fully automated measurement of imitation and motor learning differences in children with ASD. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bennetto, L., Keith, J. M., Allen, P., Zampella, C. J., Schauder, K., Cubit, L. S., & Stodgell, C. (2019, May). Impaired olfactory detection and identification in children and young adults with ASD. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Holmes, L. G., Zampella, C. J., Clements, C., Maddox, B., McCleery, J., Parish-Morris, J., Schultz, R. T., & Miller, J. S. (2019, May). A lifespan approach to patient-reported outcomes and quality of life for autism using NIH PROMIS. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Holmes, L. G., Clements, C., McCleery, J., Zampella, C. J., Schultz, R. T., & Miller, J. S. (2019, May). Patient-reported outcomes: PROMIS sexual functioning for autistic adults. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Parish-Morris, J., Cho, S., Liberman, M., Ryant, N., Bartley, G. K., Cola, M., Plate, S., Yankowitz, L., Petrulla, V., Riiff, A., Zampella, C. J., Herrington, J. D., Sariyanidi, E., Tunc, B., Kim, E., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., & Schultz, R.T. (2019, May). ‘Autistic’-sounding: A latent class linear mixed modeling approach to parsing heterogeneity in children’s natural conversations using acoustic properties of speech. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Plate, S., Sariyanidi, E., Cola, M., Zampella, C. J., Yankowitz, L. D., Riiff, A., Petrulla, V., Tunc, B., Herrington, J. D., Bartley, G. K., Kim, E. S., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T. & Parish-Morris, J. (2019, May). Do predictors in machine learning classification of ASD differ for children vs. adolescents? Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Leung, J., Dravis, Z. M., Bagdasarov, A., Lavanderos, A. M., Mahoney, B., Adeoye, L., Riiff, A., Pomykacz, A., Bassanello, K., Faggen, A., Plate, S., Cola, M., Petrulla, V., Bateman, L., Pandey, J., Parish-Morris, J., Zampella, C. J., Kim, E. S., Schultz, R., & de Marchena, A. (2019, May). Quantitative and qualitative features of co-speech gesture in verbally fluent individuals with ASD. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Lavanderos, A. M., Bagdasarov, A., Dravis, Z. M., Adeoye, L., Mahoney, B., Leung, J., Riiff, A., Cola, M., Plate, S., Petrulla, V., Faggen, A., Bassanello, K., Pomykacz, A., Bateman, L., Pandey, J., Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Kim, E. S., Schultz, R., & de Marchena, A. (2019, May). Contextual differences in gesture production in verbally fluent individuals with ASD. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Sariyanidi, E., Bartley, G. K., Zampella, C. J., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., Kim, E. S., Herrington, J. D., Tunc, B., Parish-Morris, J., & Schultz, R. T. (2019, May). Computer vision analyses of social coordination and social communication deficits in autism. Paper presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Cola, M., Plate, S., Bateman, L., Ferguson, E. F., Petrulla, V., Riiff, A., Yankowitz, L. D., Bartley, G. K., Zampella, C. J., Herrington, J. D., Sariyanidi, E., Tunc, B., Kim, E. S., de Marchena, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T. & Parish-Morris, J. (2019, May). Naive thin-slice impressions reveal evidence of the female camouflage effect in ASD. Paper presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Zampella, C. J., Bennetto, L., & Herrington, J. D. (2019, March). Computer vision based quantification of reduced interpersonal facial affect synchrony in autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Lectures by Invitation
2022
de Marchena, A. & Zampella, C. J. (2022, May). Motor Skills in Autism: A Missed Opportunity. Autism Community Network Presents Caregiver Empowerment, Autism Community Network, San Antonio, TX.
Moulder, C., & Zampella, C. J. (2022, January). Behavior Management. Center for Autism Research Clinical Seminar Series, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
2021
Zampella, C. J. (2021, October). Predicting autism and social communication from digital analysis of dyadic synchrony. EU-AIMS LEAP 3 Multisite Meeting, Virtual Presentation.
Zampella, C. J. (2021, February). Computational analysis of interactional synchrony: A novel measure of autism risk. Clinical Neuroscience Grand Rounds, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
2020
Guthrie, W., & Zampella, C. J. (2020, February). Infant-caregiver synchrony in ASD. Infant Brain Imaging Study Annual Meeting, Denver, Co.
Editorials, Reviews, Chapters
2021
Zampella, C. J., & Bennetto, L. (2021). Motor planning. In F. R., Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
Zampella, C. J., & Bennetto, L. (2021). Oral-motor imitation. In F. R., Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
2013
Zampella, C. J., & Bennetto, L. (2013). Motor planning. In F. R., Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders. New York, NY: Springer.
Zampella, C. J., & Bennetto, L. (2013). Oral-motor imitation. In F. R., Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders. New York. NY: Springer.