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Updated February 28, 2017 1

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CURRICULUM VITAE

Frederick Shic, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics

School of Medicine Contact Information:

Office Address: Seattle Children’s Research Institute: West 8th 2001 Eighth Ave. Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98121

Office phone: (206) 884-8162 Email Address: [email protected]

Personal Data: Citizenship: USA Education: 08/92-05/92 B.S., Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 08/02-05/04 M.S., Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06/04-12/05 M.Phil., Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 01/05-12/08 Ph.D., Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT Postgraduate Training: 01/09-06/10 Postdoctoral Training in Child Neuropsychiatric Disorders Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Faculty Appointments/Positions: 07/10-05/11 Associate Research Scientist - Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06/11-08/16 Assistant Professor - Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 09/16- Adjunct Professor – Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 09/16- Associate Professor – General Pediatrics University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 09/16- Investigator – Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development


Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA Hospital Positions Held/Privileging: Honors:

2002 Young Investigator Award Paper, European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology

2006 Best Applied Computational Modeling Paper, 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

2006 Best Presentation, Session on Autonomous Mental Development, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

2006 Autism Speaks Mentor Based Fellowship 2008 National Research Service Award 2012 Clinical and Translational Science Award, Yale Center for

Clinical Investigation 2015 NIMH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award 2016 Best Paper, 2016 IEEE 7th Annual Ubiquitous Computing,

Electronics Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) Board Certification: Current Licenses to Practice: Professional Organizations:

2006-2008 Cognitive Science Society 2006-2008 IEEE, Computational Intelligence Society

2002-2004,2011 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2008-2014 Society for Research in Child Development 2013-2014 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2007-present International Society for Autism Research 2008-present Association for Computing Machinery

2016-present International Society for Research on Internet Interventions

Teaching Responsibilities Courses Educational Lectures

2015-2016: Seminar on Autism & Related Disorders: “The Role of Assistive Technology in the Assessment and Treatment of ASD”


2015: Seminar on Autism & Related Disorders: “Attentional Abnormalities During the Prodromal Stage of ASD: Insights from Studies of Infants at High Risk”. With Suzanne Macari, Ph.D.

2014: NSF Expedition in Computing on Socially Assistive Robotics, Annual Meeting: “Clinical Knowledge Transfer”

2014: Seminar on Autism & Related Disorders: “Applications of Technology (in ASD)”

2014: T32 Training Seminar in Child Neuropsychiatric Disorders: “Bench to Bedside: Eye-Tracking”

2014: Sewanee-Yale Summer Program Faculty Talk: “Everyday Technologies in the Lives of Children with ASD: The Case for Eye Tracking”

2014: Yale Child Study Center Grand Rounds: "Technology on the Cusp: Eye Tracking in Autism Research Comes of Age”

2013: Developmental Electrophysiology Laboratory, Yale Child Study Center: “The Role of Technology in the Lives of Children with Autism: Preliminary Studies and New Directions”

2013: Department of Computer Science Robotics Course: “The Role of Technology in the Lives of Children with Autism: Preliminary Studies and New Directions”

2013: Meeting of the Yale Child Study Center Associates: “A Preliminary Head-Mounted Eye-Tracking Study of Individuals with ASD Touring a Museum of Art”

2013: Research in Progress Talks, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation: "Gaze Contingent Protocols for Modifying Attentional Patterns in Children with ASD”

2013: 12th Annual Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders: “Technology in ASD”

2013: Faculty Meeting, Yale Child Study Center: “The Technology and Innovation Laboratory”

2012: Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, Yale University: “Eye-tracking in toddlers and infants: perspectives from autism research”.

2012: 11th Annual Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders: “Studies of Early Social Attention in ASD: What Eye-tracking Tells Us About Mechanism, Heterogeneity, and Outcome”. Presented with Suzanne Macari, Ph.D.

2012: Yale Child Study Center Grand Rounds: “Eye-tracking and Atypical Early Experience: Studies of Autism in the First Two Years of Life”

2011: Neurodynamics seminar: “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: theory, techniques, and applications”


2011: Autism Center of Excellence, Yale University, site visit presentation: “ACE Legacies: Current and Future Directions for Eye-tracking at Yale”

2011: 10th Annual Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders: “Critical Transitions in Social Cognition: Evidence from Eye-Tracking Studies of Autism across the Lifespan”

2011 Mar/Nov Seminar on Autism & Related Disorders: “Using Eye-tracking to Study Social Processing”

2010: 9th Annual Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders: “Visual And Behavioral Correlates of Cognition in Infants and Toddlers with ASD”

2009: 8th Annual Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders: “Eye-tracking in Infants and Toddlers with ASD”

2007: Autism Science Meeting: “Computational Models of Visual Attention in the Analysis of the Gaze Patterns of Children With Autism”

Resident and Fellow education Trainees Mentored Undergraduate Research Internships (Child Study Center, Yale):

2013-2014 Christopher Daniell (Sewanee University) 2013-2014 Corrine Makar (Boston College) 2013-2014 Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty (Yale University) 2014-2015 James Snider (West Kentucky University) 2015 Margaret Orr (Colgate University) 2015 Lisa Chen (Mount Holyoke College) 2015-2016 Emon Datta (Yale University) 2016 Samantha Guiterrez (Monterrey Institute of Technology

(ITESM), Guadalajara, Mexico) Post-undergraduate Research Fellows (Child Study Center, Yale):

2007-2009 Jessica Bradshaw, BA 2010-2011 Benjamin Oakes, BS 2010-2012 Grace Chen, BA 2011-2013 Alexandra Dowd, BA 2011-2013 Eugenia Gisin, BS 2012-2013 Daniel Cheong, MS 2013-2015 Emily Prince, BS 2013-2016 Carla Wall, BA, MS 2013-2015 Lilli Flink, BA 2014-2016 Lauren DiNicola, BA


2014-2015 Gabriella Greco, BA 2015-2016 Erin Barney, BS* 2015-2016 Claire Foster, BA 2015-2016 Yeo Jin Amy Ahn, BA* 2015-2016 Beibin Li, BS* 2015-2016 Stephanie Valencia, BS 2015-2016 Logan Hart, BA 2016-2016 Minah Kim, BA*

* Transitioned to University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Post-undergraduate Research Fellows (University of Washington/Seattle Children’s):

2016-present Erin Barney, BS 2016-present Yeo Jin Amy Ahn, BA 2016-present Beibin Li, BS 2016-present Minah Kim, BA

Post-doctoral fellows (Child Study Center, Yale): 2011-2014 Daniel Campbell, PhD Statistics 2011-2015 Elizabeth Kim, PhD Computer Science 2013-2016 Quan Wang, PhD Comp. Neuroscience &

Cognitive Science 2014-2016 Laura Boccanfuso, PhD Computer Science

2015-present Marilena Mademtzi, PhD Special Education 2016-2016 Adham Atyabi, PhD* Computer Science

* Transitioned to University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Post-doctoral fellows (Child Study Center, Yale):

2016-present Adham Atyabi, PhD Computer Science Medical Residents: 2014-2016 Ben Popple, DMD Pediatric Dentistry Research Advisor, Yale University, New Haven, CT Graduate students: 2016 Ilse de Bruin Computer Integrated Ed. Internship Advisor, Pretoria University, South Africa 2015-2016 Arfer Kodi Psychology PhD Thesis Committee, SUNY Stonybrook, NY 2014-present Roald Oien Psychology Co-Advisor, Tromso University, Tromso, Norway Visiting Scholars: 2015-2016 Qing Hong Yang, PhD. Management Sci. & Eng. Collaborator, Beihang University, China


Editorial Responsibilities: Editorial Board: 2011-present Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2013-2015 Editor of the Special Issue on Technology in Autism

Research, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2015-present Paper Chair, ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research

and Applications 2015-present Co-chair of Technology Session, International Meeting for

Autism Research Regular Reviewer (regular reviewer, bolded):

2012-present [Medical/Psychology Conferences] International Meeting for Autism Research

2009-present [Peer-reviewed Journals] Autism, Autism Research; Autism Research and Treatment; Behavioral Research Methods; Biological Psychiatry; Early Education and Development; Infancy; Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; Journal of Neurodevelopment Disorders; Journal of Visualized Experiments; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Molecular Autism; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews; Pediatrics; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B; Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences

2009-present [Technical Conference/Journal Papers] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning / Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL/EpiRob), Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), Journal of Human Robot Interactions, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Journal on Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing, IEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

2006-2008 [Technical Conference/Journal Papers] International Conference on Development and Learning, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, International Conference on Robotics and Automation


Special National Responsibilities:

2011 Ad-hoc Reviewer, Trailblazer Awards, Autism Speaks 2011-2012 Ad-hoc Reviewer, Treatment Grants Study Section, Autism

Speaks 2012 Ad-hoc Reviewer, Small Business Grants Study Section,

Autism Speaks 2013 Ad-hoc Reviewer, Insight Grants, Social Sciences and

Humanities Research Council, Canada 2013 Ad-hoc Reviewer, Tactical Translational Funding

Proposals, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, Yale University School of Medicine

2013-10 Invited discussant, Autism Speaks Think Tank on Technology

2014 Ad-hoc Reviewer, National Medical Research Council Research Grant Proposals, Singapore

2014-2015 Reviewer, DELSIA, Autism Speaks 2015 Brown and Coxe Fellowships, Yale School of Medicine 2015 Ad-hoc reviewer, R21/R33 Early Phase Clinical Trials,

NIMH Study Section 2015 Ad-hoc reviewer, SBIR/STTR R43/R44

Neurodevelopmental Assessment of Infants and Children in Resource Limited Settings, NICHD

2016 Ad-hoc reviewer, R61/R33 Exploratory Clinical Trials of Novel Interventions for Mental Disorders, NIMH Study Section

2016 Ad-hoc reviewer, NICHD Loan Repayment Project 2016 Ad-hoc reviewer, Adaptation/Optimization of Technology

(ADOPTech) to Support Social Functioning (R21), NIMH Study Section

2016 Ad-hoc reviewer, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Fellowship

2016-2017 Ad-hoc reviewer, NSF 2017 Ad-hoc reviewer, Israel Science Foundation 2017 Ad-hoc reviewer, NIH CPDD Study Section

Special Local Responsibilities: Academic (UW)

2016- Director, Seattle Children’s Innovative Technologies Lab (SCITL)


Academic (Yale University)

2012-2013 EPIC coordinating committee 2011-2016 Autism Program, Child Study Center, Yale School of

Medicine 2010-2014 Junior Faculty member to the NIMH T32 Training

Program in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders 2010-2016 Co-Director, Yale Early Social Cognition Laboratory 2011-2016 Director, Technology and Innovation Laboratory (TIL) 2015-2016 Web/Social Media Workgroup, Child Study Center, Yale

School of Medicine 2015-2016 NEw Technologies WORKgroup (NETWORK), Child

Study Center, Yale School of Medicine Research Funding: Active Funding (* refer to subsumed efforts) 15-004376 (Shic, Frederick) 07/01/2015 - 06/30/2017 10% Simons Foundation $208,303.00 1.20 cm Tracking Intervention Effects with Eye Tracking This project focuses specifically on the development of eye-tracking tools and paradigms for practical use. This project aims to validate and refine eye-tracking measures of treatment response and to develop new technologies that can boost the efficiency and accessibility of eye tracking. This work constitutes a first step towards bringing eye tracking into clinics and homes. Role: PI K01 MH104739-01A1 (Shic, Frederick) 04/01/2015-03/31/2019 75% NIMH $719,379 9.00 cm Neural Correlates of Biological Motion Perception in Children with ASD This longitudinal study uses functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and eye tracking to examine atypical neural and behavioral responses in toddlers and young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) presented with point light displays of emotional biological motion. This study will deepen our understanding of the fundamental nature of deficits in ASD by highlighting deficits in basic social-emotional information processing, and may lead to the discovery of new markers for the disorder and new methodologies for parsing the vast behavioral and clinical heterogeneity of ASD. Role: PI R21 MH103550-01A1 (Shic, Frederick) 04/01/2015-03/31/2017 10%* NIMH $457,875 1.20 cm A Multimedia Screening System for Early ASD Identification in Diverse Populations The age at which children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) lags behind the age that ASD can be reliably detected by two years on average in the general community and up to six years in low-resource or racially- and ethnically-diverse communities. This is extremely concerning since early identification of ASD leads to earlier treatment of ASD, which in turn is


associated with better outcomes for children. This project will develop digital screening systems for ASD that, through multimedia enhancements, will be more applicable across socioeconomic strata and, through consideration of the process of screening (and not just the instruments), will be more naturally, efficiently, and economically integrated into standards of care at 18- and 24-month pediatric well-care visits. Role: PI R21 MH102572 (Shic, Frederick) 09/01/2013-08/31/2015 15%* NIH $457,875 1.80 cm Gaze Modification Strategies for Toddlers with ASD Recent studies using eye-tracking have shown that the gaze patterns of infants and toddlers who develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are atypical as early as the 6th month of age, suggesting that the pathogenic processes that underlie the disorder impact their social experiences from an early age. This project represents a first step towards the development of automated tools that can help toddlers and older infants with ASD learn to attend to social information in a more typical fashion. The development of these techniques may provide a new model for modifying attentional biases not only in toddlers with ASD, but also children who will be affected by other neuropsychiatric conditions, and may thus lead to new therapies as well as more efficacious methods for identifying the patterns associated with abnormal attention-driven experience. Role: PI U19 MH108206-01 (McPartland, James) 07/01/2015 - 06/30/2019 NIH $6,249,962 2.10 cm The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials The goal of this consortium is to establish tools that can be used as biomarkers and/or sensitive and reliable objective assays of social impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) clinical trials. The consortium will conduct a naturalistic, longitudinal study of preschool (3-5 years) and school aged (6-11 years) children with ASD and typical development (TD) with IQ ranging from 50-115. Role: Co-Director, Data Acquisition and Analysis Core (Eye tracking); Investigator R01 CA195654 (Smith, Megan V.) 09/19/2014-08/31/2018 NIMH $749,094 SCH: INT: Harnessing the Power of Technology: MOMBA for Postpartum Smoking Role: Investigator R01 MH100182-01 (Chawarska, Katarzyna) 04/01/2013-03/31/2018 10%* NIH $3,982,637 1.20 cm Components of Emotional Processing in Toddlers with ASD This project addresses the following themes highlighted by the 2011 NIH IACC Strategic Plan: 1) identification of markers that improve monitoring, screening, and subtyping of ASD in toddlers less than 2 years of age; 2) identification of markers of heterogeneity beyond variation in intellectual disability that relate to etiology, risk, treatment response, and outcome; 3) multidisciplinary, longitudinal studies from infancy across axes of the ASD phenotype that help to identify risk factors, co-occurring symptoms, and potential targets for treatment. Role: Investigator


Pending Funding Completed Funding W81XWH-13-1-0179 (Chawarska, Katarzyna) 09/30/2013-09/29/2016 10%* DOD CDMRP $665,459 1.20 cm Subtyping of toddlers with ASD based on patterns of social attention deficits The main objective of the proposed project is to elucidate the factors that affect spontaneous dyadic orienting at the earliest stages when ASD can be reliably diagnosed in order to advance our understanding of phenotypic heterogeneity and foster identification of more homogeneous and clinically relevant subgroups within the autism spectrum. Role: Investigator R34 MH100456-01 (Smith, Megan V.) 04/01/2013-03/31/2016 NIMH $749,094 MOMBA smartphone application Role: Investigator R01 MH087554-03 (Chawarska, Katarzyna) 04/01/2010-02/28/2015 10%* NIMH $2,014,514 1.20 cm Development of Face Processing in Infants with ASD In this project we will characterize the emergence of face processing abnormalities in infants with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) by prospectively following, from 3 months to 36 months of life, infants that are, due to a genetic liability, at high risk for developing ASD. Role: Investigator NSF #1139078 (Scassellati, Brian) 04/01/2012-03/31/2016 5%* National Science Foundation $2,150,000 0.60 cm Experimental Expeditions / Collaborative Research: Socially Assistive Robots This Expedition will develop the fundamental computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of robots that encourage social, emotional, and cognitive growth in children, including those with social or cognitive deficits. The need for this technology is driven by critical societal problems that require sustained, personalized support that supplements the efforts of educators, parents, and clinicians. Role: Application PI EDIES13C0046 II (Tedesco, Robert) 05/10/2013-05/10/2015 10% HandHold Adaptive $899,857 [FS: $379,704] 1.20 cm Handheld Technology for Speech Development in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) The aims of this project are 1) to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a specialized iPad application for improving prosodic production in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder in an authentic educational setting and 2) to compare treatment outcomes for students who received the specialized application treatment and students who did not receive the specialized application treatment. Role: Subcontract PI YCCI (Shic, Frederick) 07/01/2012-06/30/2014


Yale Center for Clinical Investigation $100,000 Teaching Prototypical Monitoring of Others and their Activities to Toddlers with ASD This project provides research funds for laboratory costs and personnel, with the intention that the funds go towards infrastructure and development that prepares the PI to apply for funding for adaptive eye-tracking work. The PI can draw no salary support from this YCCI award. Role: PI WP50 MH081756-05 (Volkmar, Fred) 04/01/2008-03/31/2013 NIMH Mechanisms of Social Engagement in Autism Spectrum Disorders This Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) is a multidisciplinary program of research on molecular, brain and behavioral aspects of the autism spectrum disorders. The emphasis of this Center is on the integration of innovative methods from different fields of research to further the understanding of neurodevelopmental processes & risk factors that can be translated into early intervention and treatment studies. Role: Investigator EDIES13C0046 I (Tedesco, Robert) 06/22/2012-01/22/2013 HandHold Adaptive Handheld Technology for Speech Development in Students with ASDs Role: Research PI R03 MH092618-02 (Shic, Frederick) 02/07/2011-06/30/2013 NIMH $165,646 Components of Limited Activity Monitoring in Toddlers with ASD This project examines how limited activity monitoring in ASD is related to sensitivity to the gaze and focus of others, sensitivity to motion and dynamic cues, and distractibility caused by competitors to social attention. By understanding the components which may contribute to limited activity monitoring, and by understanding the trends in the typical development of activity monitoring, this project has the potential to aid in the development of novel methods for the early screening, monitoring, and treatment of ASD. Role: PI P01 HD03008 (Volkmar, Fred) 09/05/06-08/31/2012 NICHD Autism and Related Disorders: Development and Outcome This is a multidisciplinary program of research on autism and related developmental disorders focused on understanding mechanisms of dysfunction in autism integrating advances in neuropsychology developmental psychopathology, neuroscience and genetics into understanding the clinical manifestations, which in turn are studied in relation to specific neurodevelopment processes and risk factors. Role: Investigator NSF CDI #0835767 (Scassellati, Brian) 10/01/08-03/31/2012 National Science Foundation Collaborative: CDI Type I: Understanding Early Social Behaviors in Autism Through Computational and Robotic Modeling//Understanding Early Behaviors Role: Investigator


BP27801 W01213 (Shic, Frederick) 06/01/2011-12/31/2011 R03MH086732 (Macari, Suzanne) 07/01/2009-08/30/2011 NIMH Perceptual Factors Affecting Social Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life This project examines effects of various perceptual features (motion, color, contrast) on attention regulation in toddlers with ASD. It aims to determine why very young toddlers have profound difficulties attend to social stimuli in naturalistic environments. Role: Investigator 5T32MH018268 (Leckman, James) 09/01/2008-09/01/2010 NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders. This T32 grant supports a postdoctoral training program in childhood neuropsychiatric disorders (Institutional National Research Service Award) Role: Fellow

Bibliography: (a) Manuscripts in Refereed Journals 1. Lin, A., Nguy, C. H., Shic, F., & Ross, B. D. (2001). Accumulation of

methylsulfonylmethane in the human brain: identification by multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Toxicology Letters, 123(2-3), 169-177.

2. Bluml, S., Moreno-Torres, A., Shic, F., Nguy, C. H., & Ross, B. D. (2002). Tricarboxylic acid cycle of glia in the in vivo human brain. NMR in Biomedicine, 15(1), 1-5.

3. Lin, A., Nguy, C. H., Shic, F., & Ross, B. D. (2002). Letters to the Editor. Toxicology Letters, 129(3), 263.

4. Lin, A. P., Shic, F., Enriquez, C., & Ross, B. D. (2003). Reduced glutamate neurotransmission in patients with Alzheimer's disease–an in vivo 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. MAGMA Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 16(1), 29-42. (1st Place Young Investigator Award Paper)

5. Shic, F., & Ross, B. D. (2003). Automated data processing of {1H-decoupled} 13C MR spectra acquired from human brain in vivo. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 162(), 259-268. doi:10.1016/S1090-7807(03)00117-4

6. Shic, F., & Scassellati, B. (2007a). Pitfalls in the modeling of Developmental Systems. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 4(2), 435-454.

7. Shic, F., & Scassellati, B. (2007b). A Behavioral Analysis of Computational Models of Visual Attention. International Journal of Computer Vision, 73(2), 159-177. doi:10.1007/s11263-006-9784-6

8. Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2009). Looking But Not Seeing: Atypical Visual Scanning and Recognition of Faces in 2 and 4-Year-Old Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(12), 1663-1672. doi:10.1007/s10803-009-0803-7. PMID: 19590943

9. Bradshaw, J., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2010). Brief Report: Face-Specific Recognition Deficits in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.


10. Shic, F., Bradshaw, J., Klin, A., Scassellati, B., & Chawarska, K. (2011). Limited activity monitoring in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. Brain Research, 1380, 246-254. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.11.074. PMID: 21129365

11. Kim, E., Paul, R., Shic, F. & Scassellati, B. (2012; in press). Bridging the Research Gap: making HRI useful to Individuals with Autism. Journal of Human Robot Interaction.

12. Kim, E., Berkovits, L.D., Bernier, E.P., Leyzberg, D., Shic, F., Paul, R., & Scassellati, B. (2012; in press). Social Robots as Embedded Reinforcers of Social Behavior in Children with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

13. Chawarska, K., Campbell, D., Chen, L., Shic, F., Klin, A., & Chang, J. T. (2011). Early Generalized Overgrowth in Boys with Autism. Archives of General Psychiatry.

14. Chawarska, K., Macari, S., & Shic, F. (2012). Context modulates attention to social scenes in toddlers with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (ePub). PMID: 22428993 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

15. Chawarska, K., Macari, S., & Shic, F. (2013). Decreased Spontaneous Attention to Social Scenes in 6-Month-Old Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Biological Psychiatry, (0). doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.11.022

16. Campbell, D. J., Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2013). Gaze Response to Dyadic Bids at 2 Years Related to Outcomes at 3 Years in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Subtyping Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1–12. doi: 10.1007/s10803-013-1885-9

17. Shic, F., Macari S., & Chawarska, K. (2013).Speech Disturbs Face Scanning in 6-Month Olds who Develop Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, (0). doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.07.009

18. Chawarska, K., Shic, F., Macari, S., Campbell, D. J., Brian, J., Landa, R., Hutman, T., Nelson, C. A., Ozonoff, S., Tager-Flusberg, H., Young, G. S., Zwaigenbaum, L., Cohen, I. L., Charman, T., Messinger, D. S., Klin, A., Johnson, S., & Bryson, S. (2014). 18-Month Predictors of Later Outcomes in Younger Siblings of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2014.09.015

19. Wittkowski, K. M., Sonakya, V., Bigio, B., Tonn, M. K., Shic, F., Ascano, M., Nasca, C., & Gold-Von Simson, G. (2014). A novel computational biostatistics approach implies impaired dephosphorylation of growth factor receptors as associated with severity of autism. Translational Psychiatry, 4(1), e354. doi: 10.1038/tp.2013.124

20. Lebowitz, E. R., Shic, F., Campbell, D., MacLeod, J., & Silverman, W. K. (2014). Avoidance Moderates the Association Between Mothers’ and Children’s Fears: Findings from a Novel Motion-Tracking Behavioral Assessment. Depression and Anxiety, n/a–n/a. doi: 10.1002/da.22333

21. Rice, L. M., Wall, C. A., Fogel, A., & Shic, F. (2015). Computer-Assisted Face Processing Instruction Improves Emotion Recognition, Mentalizing, and Social Skills in Students with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1–11. doi:10.1007/s10803-015-2380-2

22. Simmons, E. S., Paul, R., & Shic, F. (2015). Brief Report: A Mobile Application to Treat Prosodic Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Communication Impairments: A Pilot Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1–8. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2573-8

23. Lebowitz, E. R., Shic, F., Campbell, D., Basile, K., & Silverman, W. K. (2015). Anxiety sensitivity moderates behavioral avoidance in anxious youth. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 74, 11–17. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2015.08.009


24. Chawarska, K., Ye, S., Shic, F., & Chen, L. (2015). Multilevel Differences in Spontaneous Social Attention in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12473

25. Chawarska, K., Macari, S., Powell, K., DiNicola, L., & Shic, F. (2016). Enhanced Social Attention in Female Infant Siblings at Risk for Autism. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.11.016

26. Prince, E.B., Kim, E.S., Wall C.A., Gisin, E., Goodwin, M.S., Simmons, E.S., Chawarska, K., Shic, F. (2016). Short Report: The Relationship between Autism Symptoms and Arousal Level in Toddlers with ASD, as Measured by Electrodermal Activity. Autism Research. (In press)

27. Popple, B. S., Wall, C. A., Flink, L., Powell, K. K., Keck, D. B., Mademtzi, M., Volkmar, F. R., & Shic, F. (2016). Brief Report: Remotely Delivered Video Modeling for Improving Oral Hygiene in Children with ASD: A Pilot Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. (In press)

28. Atyabi, A., Shic, F., & Naples, A. (2016). Mixture of autoregressive modeling orders and its implication on single trial EEG classification. Expert Systems with Applications, 65, 164–180. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2016.08.044

29. Umbricht, D., del Valle Rubido, M., Hollander, E., McCracken, J. T., Shic, F., Scahill, L., Noeldeke, J., Boak, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Grundschober, C., Kletzl, H., & Fontoura, P. (2016). A Single Dose, Randomized, Controlled Proof-of-Mechanism Study of a Novel Vasopressin 1a Receptor Antagonist (RG7713) in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.232

30. Øien, R. A., Hart, L., Schjølberg, S., Wall, C. A., Kim, E. S., Nordahl-Hansen, A., Eisemann, M. R., Chawarska, K., Volkmar, F. R., & Shic, F. (2016). Parent-Endorsed Sex Differences in Toddlers with and Without ASD: Utilizing the M-CHAT. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1–9. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2945-8

31. Shaffer RC, Pedapati EV, Shic F, Gaietto K, Bowers K, Wink LK, Erickson CA (2016): Brief Report: Diminished Gaze Preference for Dynamic Social Interaction Scenes in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders. J Autism Dev Disord. 1–8.

32. Li F, Zheng Y, Smith SD, Shic F, Moore CC, Zheng X, et al. (2016): A preliminary study of movement intensity during a Go/No-Go task and its association with ADHD outcomes and symptom severity. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 10: 47.

(a’) Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers Note: Conference papers (~6-12 pages in length) are the primary venue for scientific

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1. Shic F, Lin A, Shelden H, Ross BD, Panagiotacopulos N, Lertsuntivit S, Savidge LA. "Wavelet Analysis in the Study of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Head Trauma" in Advances in Physics, Electronics and Signal Processing Applications. 2000; 297-302.


2. Panagiotacopulos N, Lertsuntivit S, Savidge LA, Lin A, Shic F, Ross BD, "Wavelet Analysis of Brain Tumors in Clinical MRS" in Advances in Physics, Electronics and Signal Processing Applications. 2000; 290-296.

3. Shic F, Scassellati B. How Not to Evaluate a Developmental System. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2006). 2006.

4. Shic F, Jones W, Klin A, Scassellati B. Swimming in the Underlying Stream: Computational Models of Gaze in a Comparative Behavioral Analysis of Autism. 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci 2006). 2006. (Best Applied Computational Modeling Paper)

5. Shic F, Chawarska K, Lin D, Scassellati B. Measuring Context: The gaze patterns of Children with Autism Evaluated from the Bottom-up. 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007). 2007.

6. Shic F, Chawarska K, Scassellati B. The Incomplete Fixation Measure. Eye-Tracking Research and Applications Symposium 2008 (ETRA 2008). 2008.

7. Shic F, Chawarska K, Scassellati B. The Amorphous Fixation Measure Revisited: with Applications to Autism. 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2008). 2008.

8. Shic F, Chawarska K, Bradshaw J, Scassellati B. Autism, Eye-tracking, Entropy. 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008). 2008.

9. Campbell, D., Chang, J., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2014). Saliency-based Bayesian Modeling of Dynamic Viewing of Static Scenes. In Proceedings of the 2014 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications. Safety Harbor, FL: ACM.

10. Celebi, F., Kim, E., Wang, Q., Wall, C., & Shic, F. (2014). A smooth pursuit calibration technique. In Proceedings of the 2014 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications. Safety Harbor, FL: ACM.

11. Kim, E., Naples, A., Vaccarino Gearty, G., Wang, Q., Wallace, S., Wall, C., … Shic, F. (2014). Development of an untethered, mobile, low-cost head-mounted eye tracker. In Proceedings of the 2014 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications. Safety Harbor, FL: ACM.

12. Wang, Q., Kim, E., Chawarska, K., Zucker, S., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2014). On Relationships Between Fixation Identification Algorithms and Fractal Box Counting Methods. In Proceedings of the 2014 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications. Safety Harbor, FL: ACM.

13. Wang, Q., Celebi, F. M., Flink, L., Greco, G., Wall, C., Prince, E., Lansiquot, S., Chawarska, K., Kim, E. S., Boccanfuso, L., DiNicola, L., & Shic, F. (2015). Interactive Eye Tracking for Gaze Strategy Modification. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC ’15 (pp. 247–250). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2771839.2771888

14. Boccanfuso, L., Lyons, M., Shic, F., DiNicola, L., Greco, G., Mademtzi, M., Chawarska, K., & Scassellati, B. (2015). Immersive 3D, live-action, social skills training for children with ASD. Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovations in Interaction Design & Learning, ACM SIGCHI Interaction Design and Children 2015, Boston, MA.

15. Boccanfuso, L., Kim, E. S., Snider, J., Wang, Q., Flink, L., Lansiquot, S., DiNicola, L., Greco, G., Chawarska, K., Ventola, P., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2015). Autonomously detecting interaction with an affective robot to explore connection to developmental ability. Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2015), Xian, China: ACM.

16. Kim, E. S., Daniell, C., Makar, C., Elia, J., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2015). Potential clinical impact of positive affect in robot interactions for autism intervention. Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2015), Xian, China: ACM.


17. Wall, C., Wang, Q., Weng, M., Kim, E., Whitaker, L., Perlmutter, M., & Shic, F. (2015). Mapping Connections Between Biological-Emotional Preferences and Affective Recognition An Eye-Tracking Interface for Passive Assessment of Emotional Competency. Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2015), Xian, China: ACM.

18. Weng, M., Wall, C., Kim, E., Whitaker, L., Perlmutter, M., Wang, Q., Lebowitz, E., & Shic, F. (2015). Linking Volitional Preferences for Emotional Information to Social Difficulties: A Game Approach using the Microsoft Kinect. Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2015), Xian, China: ACM.

19. Boccanfuso, L., Barney, E., Foster, C., Ahn, Y. A., Chawarska, K., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2016). Emotional Robot to Examine Differences in Play Patterns and Affective Response of Children with and Without ASD. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (pp. 19–26). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press.

20. Li, B., Wang, Q., Barney, E., Hart, L., Wall, C., Chawarska, K., de Urabain, I. S., Smith, T. J., & Shic, F. (2016). Modified DBSCAN Algorithm on Oculomotor Fixation Identification. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, ETRA ’16 (pp. 337–338). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2857491.2888587

21. Li, B., Wang, Q., Boccanfuso, L., & Shic, F. (2016). Optimality of the Distance Dispersion Fixation Identification Algorithm. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, ETRA ’16 (pp. 339–340). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2857491.2888588

22. Wang, Q., Boccanfuso, L., Li, B., Ahn, A. Y., Foster, C. E., Orr, M. P., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2016). Thermographic Eye Tracking. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, ETRA ’16 (pp. 307–310). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2857491.2857543

23. Li B, Boccanfuso L, Wang Q, Barney E, Ahn YA, Foster C, et al. (2016): Human Robot Activity Classification based on Accelerometer and Gyroscope. 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Presented at the 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp 423–424.

24. Boccanfuso L, Wang Q, Leite I, Li B, Torres C, Chen L, et al. (2016): A thermal emotion classifier for improved human-robot interaction. 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Presented at the 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp 718–723.

25. Valencia S, Smith MV, Atyabi A, Shic F (2016): Mobile ascertainment of smoking status through breath: A machine learning approach. 2016 IEEE 7th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON). Presented at the 2016 IEEE 7th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), pp 1–7. (Best Paper Award)

(b) Reviews, Chapters, Books (list from earliest to most recent) 1. Scassellati, B., Crick, C., Gold, K., Kim, E., & Shic, F. (2006). Social development [robots].

Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE, 1(3), 41–47.


2. Shic, F. (2013a). Upright/Inverted Figures. In F. R. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (pp. 3204–3205). Springer New York. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_300

3. Shic, F. (2013b). Video Games, Use of. In F. R. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (pp. 3255–3265). Springer New York. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_302

4. Shic, F. (2013c). Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. In F. R. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (pp. 1783–1789). Springer New York. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1946

5. Shic, F. (2013d). Eye-Tracking. In F. R. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (pp. 1208–1213). Springer New York. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1474

6. Chawarska, K., Macari, S., Volkmar, F., Kim, S. H., & Shic, F. (2014). ASD in Infants and Toddlers. In F. R. Volkmar, R. Paul, S. J. Rogers, & K. A. Pelphrey (Eds.), Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Diagnosis, Development, and Brain Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons.

(c) Published books, videos, software, etc. (d) Other publications 1. Lin, A., Nguy, C. H., Shic, F., & Ross, B. D. (2002). Letters to the Editor. Toxicology Letters,

129(3), 263. 2. Shic F, Smith D, Horsburgh B, Hollander E, Rehg JM, Goodwin M. Catalysts for Change:

The Role of Small Business Funders in the Creation and Dissemination of Innovation. J Autism Dev Disord. October 2015:1-5. doi:10.1007/s10803-015-2636-x.

3. Shic, F., & Goodwin, M. (2015). Introduction to Technologies in the Daily Lives of Individuals with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1–4. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2640-1

4. Shic, F. (2016). Eye Tracking as a Behavioral Biomarker for Psychiatric Conditions: The Road Ahead. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(4), 267–268. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.02.002

(e) Manuscripts submitted (f) Abstracts 1. Chien NT, Shieh DC, Izumi J, Nguyen C, Shic F, Lin A, Cowan RP, Ross BD. Validation of

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. AGS/AFAR 2000 Annual Scientific Meeting, 2000 May.

2. Nguy CH, Zapata M, Shic F, Lin A, Shieh D, Chien N. Efficacy of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) for Clinical Alzheimer's Disease. Proceedings, 9th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2001; 989.

3. Lin A, Shic F, Ross BD. Differentiating Diffuse Brainstem Neoplasms using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Proceedings, 9th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2001:2294.


4. Shic F, Lin A, Shelden CH, Panagiotacopulos N, Ross BD. Definition of the Neurochemical Patterns of Human Head Injury in 1H MRS Using Wavelet Analysis. Proceedings, 9th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2001.

5. Shic F, Nguy CH, Ross BD. Wavelet Detection of Intracerebral Ethanol. Proceedings, 9th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2001:1660.

6. Shic F, Nguy CH, Ross BD. In Vivo Characterization of Ethanol Using Wavelet Analysis in 1H MRS. Proceedings, 42nd Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, 2001:182.

7. Lin A, Huong CN, Shic F, Ross BD. Identification of Dietary Supplement Methylsulfonyl Methane (MSM) in the Brain by Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Proceedings, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2001). 2001.

8. Shic F, Lai L, Lin A, Yahya K, Moreno A, Bluml S, Ross BD. 13C Glucose Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Human Neurodegenerative Disorders. Neurobiology of Aging. 2002; 23(1S): S356-7.

9. Lai L, Shic F, Lin A, Shilyansky E, Ross BD. Earlier Detection of Alzheimer's Disease by Short TE 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in the Hippocampus. Neurobiology of Aging. 2002; 23(1S): S475-6.

10. Lin A, Shic F, Zapata M, Pang W, Ross BD. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease: Verification at Autopsy. Neurobiology of Aging. 2002; 23(1S): S465.

11. Shic F, Ross BD, Yahya K, Lin A, Lai L, Bluml S. A protocol for the synchronous assay of in vivo glial and neuronal metabolic rates in man. Proceedings, 10th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2002.

12. Bluml S, Shic F, Lai L, Yahya K, Lin A, Ross BD. Glutamate-glutamine cycling in epileptic patients on ketogenic diets. Proceedings, 10th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2002.

13. Lin AP, Shic F, Enriquez C, Ross BD. Evidence of reduced glutamate neurotransmission in patients with Alzheimer's disease-An in vivo 13C study. Proceedings, 19th European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, 2002.

14. Lin AP, Shic F, Enriquez CM, Ross BD. Specificity of glutamate neurotransmission observed by 13C MRS in Alzheimer's disease: A comparison with adult polyglucosan storage disease. Proceedings, 11th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2003.

15. Lin AP, Widjesenke A, Yang D, Shic F, Enriquez C, Ross BD. Clinical efficacy of short-echo time chemical shift imaging compared to single voxel spectroscopy. Proceedings, 12th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2004; 390.

16. Lin AP, Shic F, Enriquez CM, Geschwind M, and Ross BD. Abnormal Glutamate Neurotransmission Observed by 13C MRS in Patients with Adult Polyglucosan Storage Disease. ISMRM Workshop on Dynamic Spectroscopy and Measurements of Physiology, Metabolism, and Function. 2003.

17. Lin AP, Harris K, Shic F, Ross BD. Apparent rate of NAA synthesis is increased in Alzheimer's Disease. Proceedings, 13th International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2005.

18. Harris K, Bhattacharya P, Lin AP, Shic F, Ross BD. Apparent NAA synthesis rate and NAA/Cr are normal in schizophrenia. Proceedings, 13th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2005; 13:250.

19. Lin D, Jones W, Shic F, Knoch K, Shultz S, Klin A. Effects of Audio-Visual Synchrony on the Viewing Patterns of Children with Autism. Proceedings, 6th International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). 2007; 37.


20. Chawarska K, Shic F. Visual Scanning and Recognition of Facial and Non-Facial Stimuli in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delay, and Typical Development. Proceedings, 6th International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). 2007; 25.

21. Chawarska K, Shic F, Klin A, Volkmar F. Spatial Distribution of Attention During Face Scanning: Typical Developmental Trajectories and Autism-Specific Deviations. International Conference on Infancy Studies (ICIS 2008). Vancouver, BC, 2008.

22. Chawarska, K., Shic, F., Macari, S., Bradshaw, J., Klin, A., & Volkmar, F. Action and Speech Monitoring Delays in 3-month-old Infants at Risk for ASD. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2008). London, UK, 2008.

23. Shic F, Chawarska K, Lin D, Scassellati B. The Computational Modeling of Perceptual Biases of Children with ASD in Naturalistic Settings. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2008), London, UK: 2008.

24. Shic F, Chawarska K, Zucker S, Scassellati B. Fractals from Fixations. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Society for Mathematical Psychology Conference. Washington, DC, 2008.

25. Bradshaw, J., Shic, F., Butler, B., Chawarska, K. Face and Object Processing in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Key-Features and Functioning in Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2009 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2009). Denver, CO. 2009.

26. Shic F, Chawarska K, Bradshaw J, Scassellati B. Progressive Dynamic Analysis of Face Scanning in 2- and 4-year Old Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Proceedings of the 2009 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2009). 2009.

27. Bradshaw J., Shic F., Chawarska K. Impaired Face but Not Object Recognition in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009). Chicago, IL. 2009.

28. Chawarska, K., Shic F., Bradshaw J., Macari, S., Klin, A., Atypical Face Scanning in Unaffected High Risk Infant Siblings. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009). Chicago, IL. 2009.

29. Shic, F., Bradshaw, J., Scassellati, B., Klin, A., Chawarska., K. Atypical Activity Monitoring in 20-Month Old Toddlers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009). Chicago, IL. 2009.

30. Bradshaw, J., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2010, March). Dynamic Patterns of Face-Scanning in Infants from 6 to 18 Months of Age: A Longitudinal and -Course Analysis. Poster presented at the 2010 International Confernece on Infant Studies (ISIS 2010), Baltimore, MD.

31. Bradshaw, J., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2010, May). Visual Recognition of Social and Nonsocial Stimuli in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Poster presented at the 2010 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009), Philadelphia, PA.

32. Chawarska, K., Shic, F., & Bradshaw, J. (2010, May). Effect of context on atypical face scanning in 12-month-old infants later diagnosed with ASD. Poster presented at the 2010 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009), Philadelphia, PA.

33. Shic, F., Bradshaw, J., & Chawarska, K. (2010, May). Exploration of the activities of others predicts social and cognitive deficits in toddlers with ASD. Poster presented at the 2010 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009), Philadelphia, PA.

34. Shic, F., Lin, A., Brown, J. B., Bluml, S., & Ross, B. D. (2010, May). An Open-Source Platform for Routine Clinical 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Processing. E-Poster presented at the 2010 Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Stockholm, Sweden.


35. Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2011, March 30). Eye-tracking in toddlers and children with autism: methodological and analytical issues. Presented at the EyeTracKids 2011, Talk, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

36. Shic, F., Lin, A., Stanwell, P., Ramadan, S., Gombos, E., & Mountford, C. (2011, May). Time-Frequency Analysis of In Vivo MRS of the Breast Improves Cancer Detection.

37. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2011, May). Diminished Attention to Faces In 6-Month Old Infants Later Diagnosed with ASD. Presented at the 2011 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2011), Poster, San Diego, CA.

38. Shic, F. (2011, October). Static, Silent, Speaking: A Longitudinal Study of Face-Scanning Patterns in HR Infant Siblings Grouped by Diagnostic Outcome. Presented at the 2011 Baby Sibling Research Consortium, Talk, New York, NY, USA.

39. Campbell, D., Shic, F., Macari, S., Chang, J. T., & Chawarska, K. (2012, May). Subtyping Toddlers with ASD Based on Their Scanning Patterns in Response to Dyadic Bids for Attention. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

40. Chawarska, K., Macari, S., Campbell, D., & Shic, F. (2012, May). Suppressed Attentional Response to Dyadic Social Cues in Infants with Autism. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

41. Dowd, A., Gisin, E., Shic, F., Campbell, D., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2012, May). Regulation of Activity Level and Affective Responses in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

42. Garzarek, J., Macari, S., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2012, May). Early Attentional Processing of Affective Faces in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

43. Gisin, E., Dowd, A., Chen, G. M., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2012, May). ASD Toddlers Present Deficits in Their Ability to Track Social Cues of Others. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

44. Kim, E. S., Reichow, B., Naples, A., Gisin, E., Perlmutter, M., Volkmar, F., & Shic, F. (2012, May). Viewing Patterns of Adults with Autism During a Community Art Recreation Activity. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

45. Macari, S., Shic, F., Campbell, D., & Chawarska, K. (2012, May). Diminished Salience of Social Stimuli, Not Enhanced Salience of Nonsocial Stimuli in Young Children with ASD. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

46. O’Loughlin, K., Macari, S., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2012, May). Attention Capture by and Preference for Faces with Direct Gaze in Toddlers with ASD, DD, and TD. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

47. Shic, F., Campbell, D., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2012, May). Scan Pattern Deviations in Toddlers with ASD: A Framework Based on Cohesion. Presented at the 2012 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2012), Toronto, Ontario.

48. Chawarska, K., Macari, S., Campbell, D., Kim, S., Dowd, A., O’Loughlin, K., Shic, F. (2013, May). Decreased Social Attention in 6-Month-Old Infants Later Diagnosed with ASD. Presented at the 2013 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2013), Talk, Barcelona, Spain.

49. Kim, S., Macari, S., Shic, F., Dowd, A., O’Loughlin, K., Garzarek, J., et al. (2013, May). Atypical Social Attention Patterns in 6-Month-Old Infants Later Diagnosed with ASD


During a Face-to-Face Dyadic Interaction. Presented at the 2013 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2013), Talk, Barcelona, Spain.

50. Shic, F., Campbell, D., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2012, November). A Cohesion Framework for the Analysis of Eye-tracking Patterns in Early Development. Presented at the Novel Methods in Developmental Research (NMDR 2012), Talk, Uppsala, Sweden.

51. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2012, November). Relationships between Gaze Patterns on Social Scenes and Behavioral Phenotype in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention (ABCT 2012), Talk, National Harbor, MD.

52. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2013b, March). Social Attention in Infants Who Later Develop Autism: Effects of Speech and Context. Presented at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigations All Scholar Day Retreat, Poster, New Haven, CT.

53. Shic, F. (2013, March). Towards Teaching Prototypical Monitoring of Others and their Activities to Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2013 Yale Center for Clinical Investigation External Scientific Advisory Board, Poster, New Haven, CT.

54. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2013a, April). Speech Disturbs Scanning Patterns in Infants who Develop Autism Spectrum Disorders. Presented at the Translational Science 2013, Poster, Washington, DC.

55. Shic, F., Campbell, D., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2013a, April). Hierarchical Clustering of Face Scanning in 6-month Old Infants at High-Risk for Autism Reveals Associations with Social Deficits at 24-months. Presented at the 2013 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2013), Talk, Seattle, Washington.

56. Shic, F., Campbell, D., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2013b, April). Operationalizing Atypical: Attentional Cohesion by Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2013 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2013), Talk, Seattle, Washington.

57. Shic, F., Campbell, D., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2013, October). Attention to this and that via Eye tracking at 6 months. Presented at the 2013 Baby Sibling Research Consortium, Talk, Washington, DC.

58. Simmons, E., Paul, R., & Shic, F. (2013, November). The Use of Mobile Technology in the Treatment of Prosodic Deficits in ASDs and other Developmental Disabilities. Presented at the 2013 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention (ASHA 2013), Poster, Chicago, IL.

59. Hollander, E., del Valle Rubido, M., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., et al. (2014, May). Affective Speech Recognition Clinical Biomarker Effects Of A Novel Vasopressin 1a Receptor Antagonist Vs Placebo In Adult Autism. Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s 69th Annual Meeting, Poster, New York, NY, USA.

60. Umbricht, D., del Valle Rubido, M., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., et al. (2014, May). Deficient olfaction is associated with ability to recognize emotions in high functioning autistic subjects and it improved by a vasopressin receptor 1A antagonist. Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s 69th Annual Meeting, Poster, New York, NY, USA.

61. Hollander, E., del Valle Rubido, M., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Ferretti, C., Taylor, B. P., Berlin, G., Noone, R. H., Antar, L., McCracken, J., Scahill, L., Shic, F., Jou, R., Lyons, M. C., Gavaletz, A., Wall, C. A., & Umbricht, D. (2014, May). The Effects of a Novel Vasopressin V1a Antagonist on Orienting to Biological Motion. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.


62. Hollander, E., del Valle Rubido, M., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Fontoura, P., & Umbricht, D. (2014, December). Clinical and Biomarker Effects of a Novel Vasopressin 1a Receptor Antagonist (RG7713) vs. Placebo in High Functioning Adult Autism. Presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) 53rd Annual Meeting, Poster, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

63. Prince, E., Gisin, E., Wall, C. A., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2014, May). The Relationship Between Autism Symptoms and Arousal Level in Toddlers with ASD, As Measured By Electrodermal Activity. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

64. Shic, F., Chen, G., Perlmutter, M., Gisin, E., Dowd, A., Prince, E., Flink, L., Lansiquot, S., Wall, C., Kim, E., Wang, Q., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2014, May). Components of Limited Activity Monitoring in Toddlers and Children with ASD. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

65. Shic, F., del Valle Rubido, M., Hollander, E., Jeste, J., Shafali S., McCracken, J., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Kim, E., Perlmutter, M., Sharer, E., Jou, R., Lyons, M., Apelian, T., Berlin, G., Ferretti, C., Gavaletz, A., Loomis, R., Shimizu, T., Taylor, B. P., Cowen, J., Wall, C. A., Boak, L., Fontoura, P., & Umbricht, D. (2014, May). The Effects of a Novel Vasopressin V1a Antagonist on Orienting to Biological Motion. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

66. Simmons, E., Wall, C. A., Paul, R., & Shic, F. (2014, May). The Use of Mobile Technology in the Treatment of Prosodic Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

67. Umbricht, D., del Valle Rubido, M., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Fontoura, P., & Hollander, E. (2014, December). Olfaction is Associated with Ability to Recognize Emotions in High Functioning Autistic Subjects. Presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) 53rd Annual Meeting, Poster, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

68. Wallace, S., Vaccarino-Gearty, G., Kim, E. S., Perlmutter, M., Wang, Q., Wall, C. A., Kowitt, J., Naples, A., Reichow, B., Friedlaender, L., Volkmar, F., & Shic, F. (2014, May). A Preliminary Head-Mounted Eye-Tracking Study of Individuals with ASD Touring a Museum of Art. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

69. Wang, Q., Chawarska, K., Zucker, S. W., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2014, May). Dimensionality of Gaze Patterns Towards Faces and Objects in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

70. Weng, M., Kim, E. S., Wall, C. A., Perlmutter, M., Lebowitz, E., & Shic, F. (2014, May). Performance on a Novel Kinect Emotional Choice Game Correlates with Broader Autism Phenotype Characteristics in Typically Developing Adults. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

71. Wittkowski, K., Bigio, B., Sonakya, V., Tonn, M. K., Shic, F., Ascano, M., Nasca, C., & Gold-Von Simson, G. (2014, May). Early Intervention in Autism: Wide-Locus GWAS Leading to Novel Treatment Options. Presented at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, US.

72. Iverson, J., Shic, F., Wall, C., Beninger-Brody, Y., Curtin, S., Estes, A., Gardner, J., Hutman, T., Johnson, S., Karmel, B., Landa, R., Levin, A., Libertus, K., Messinger, D., Nelson, C., Ozonoff, S., Piven, J., Sacrey, L., Sheperd, K., Rogers, S., Stone, W., Tager-Flusberg, H., Wolff, J., Yirmiya, N., & Young, G. (2014, October). Sex differences in early gross and fine motor


skills in infants at heightened vs. low risk for ASD. Presented at the 2014 Baby Sibling Research Consortium, Talk, New York, NY, USA.

73. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2014, October). Working harders than others: Spontaneous attention to dynamic social scenes in typically developing high-risk girls. Presented at the 2014 Baby Sibling Research Consortium, Talk, New York, NY, USA.

74. McDonald, N., Fichtenholtz, H., Keifer, C., Friedman, H., Shic, F., & Pelphrey, K. (2014, October). What is that baby thinking? The development of an fNIRS measure of live parent-infant interaction. Poster presented at the fNIRS, Montreal, Canada.

75. Tsang, T., Shic, F., Nguyen, B., Zolfaghari, R., & Johnson, S. (2015, March). Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Guiding Infant Scene Perception. Presented at the 2009 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2015), Philadelphia, PA.

76. Boccanfuso, L., Snider, J. C., Simmons, E., Lyons, M. C., Kim, E. S., Wall, C. A., Whitaker, L., Perlmutter, M., Konwar, K., Schrock, R., & Shic, F. (2015). Freespeech: Large-Scale Data from a New AAC Application Characterizes Usage for Young Children with ASD – One Size Does Not Fit All. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

77. Chawarska, K., Shic, F., Macari, S., Campbell, D. J., Brian, J. A., Landa, R. J., Hutman, T., Nelson, C. A., Ozonoff, S., Tager-Flusberg, H., Young, G. S., Cohen, I. L., Charman, T., Messinger, D. S., Johnson, S., Zwaigenbaum, L., Klin, A., & Bryson, S. E. (2015, May). 18-Month Predictors of Later Outcomes in Younger Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Bsrc Study. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

78. Daniell, C., Kim, E. S., Makar, C., Elia, J., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2015, May). Affect and Social Behaviors of School-Aged, High Functioning Children with ASD during Robot Interaction. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

79. DiNicola, L., Kim, E. S., Wall, C. A., Greco, G., Lansiquot, S. S., Flink, L., Wang, Q., Macari, S., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2015, May). Developmental Plateaus in Gaze Following in 24-Month- Old Toddlers with ASD: An Eye-Tracking Study. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

80. DiNicola, L., Simmons, E. S., Shic, F., Paul, R., & Chawarska, K. (2015, May). Acoustic Properties of Affective Vocalizations Produced By Six-Month-Old High- and Low-Risk Infants. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

81. Flink, L., Lansiquot, S. S., Wall, C. A., Kim, S. H., Shic, F., Koller, J., Chawarska, K., & Macari, S. (2015, May). Temperamental Features in Toddlers with ASD Are Independent of Symptom Severity. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

82. Iverson, J. M., Shic, F., Wall, C. A., Bensinger-Brody, Y., Curtin, S., Estes, A. M., Gardner, J. M., Hutman, T., Johnson, S., Karmel, B. Z., Landa, R. J., Levin, A. R., Libertus, K., Messinger, D. S., Nelson, C. A., Ozonoff, S., Piven, J., Rogers, S. J., Sacrey, L. A., Sheperd, K., Stone, W. L., Tager-Flusberg, H., Wolff, J. J., Yirmiya, N., & Young, G. S. (2015, May). Early Gross and Fine Motor Abilities in Infants at Heightened Vs. Low Risk for ASD: A Bsrc Study. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

83. Kim, E. S., Kim, S., Macari, S. L., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2015, May). Measuring the Importance of Fyi Screener Items in Predicting Adost Totals at 12 and 18 Months: A Machine


Learning Approach. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

84. Kim, S., Kim, E. S., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2015, May). Promises and Limits: Exploring Relationships Between the First Year Inventory (FYI) and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) from 12 to 18 Months of Age with Machine Learning. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

85. Lansiquot, S. S., Flink, L., Wall, C. A., Kim, S. H., Shic, F., Koller, J., Chawarska, K., & Macari, S. (2015, May). Stability of Temperament in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

86. Lyons, M. C., Paul, R., Tsatsanis, K. D., & Shic, F. (2015, May). Predictors of Functioning in Preschool and School Age Children with ASD. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

87. Macari, S., DiNicola, L., Dowd, A. C., Flink, L., Gisin, E. B., Greco, G., Lansiquot, S. S., Prince, E., Kim, S. H., Shic, F., & Chawarska, K. (2015, May). Emotional Reactivity in Toddlers with ASD: Diminished Response to Threatening Stimuli during the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB). Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

88. McCracken, J. T., Hollander, E., Scahill, L., del Valle Rubido, M., Shic, F., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Sadikhov, S., Boak, L., Bolognani, F., Fontoura, P., Wall, C., Jou, R., Loomis, R., Lyons, M., Gavaletz, A., Ferretti, C., Taylor, B. P., Noone, R., Antar, L. N., & Umbricht, D. (2015, May). Lessons Learned from Phase I Proof-of-Mechanism and Biomarker Studies in ASD: Measurement and Trial Considerations. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

89. Popple, B. S., Wall, C. A., Flink, L., Powell, K. K., Keck, D. B., Volkmar, F. R., & Shic, F. (2015, May). Improving Oral Hygiene in Children with ASD Using Video Modeled Social Stories: A Pilot Study. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

90. Reuman, H. S., Tillman, R., Kim, T., Levy, E. J., Law, K., Naples, A., Stavropoulos, K. K., Odonkor, A. T., Kim, S. H., Simmons, E. S., Powell, K. K., Macari, S., Shic, F., Chawarska, K., & McPartl, J. C. (2015, May). Perception of Biological Motion and Integration of Audio- Visual Stimuli in Infants at Risk for Autism. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

91. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2015, May). Attentional Protective Factors in Typically-Developing 6-Month-Old Girls at High-Risk for Autism. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

92. Shic, F., del Valle Rubido, M., Hollander, E., Jeste, S. S., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Sadikhov, S., Dukar, J., Kim, E., Perlmutter, M., Sharer, E., Paul, R., Jou, R., Lyons, M., Apelian, T., Berlin, G., Ferretti, Cassandra, Gabaletz, A., Loomis, R., Cowen, J., Shimuzu, T., Taylor, B. P., Wall, C., Noone, R., Antar, L. N., Boak, L., Fontoura, P., & Umbricht, D. (2015, May). From Experimental to Investigational: The Potential for Eye Tracking As a Biomarker for Outcome in Clinical Trials. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

93. Simmons, E. S., Wall, C. A., Paul, R., & Shic, F. (2015, May). Determining Appropriateness of a Mobile Technology Application to Treat Prosodic Deficits in ASD. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.


94. Tsang, T., Shic, F., Nguyen, B., Zolfaghari, R., & Johnson, S. (2015, March). Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Guiding Infant Scene Perception. Presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2015), Philadelphia, PA.

95. Umbricht, D., Rubido, M. del V., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Boak, L., Bolognani, F., Fontoura, P., Wall, C. A., Jou, R. J., Loomis, R. L., Lyons, M. C., Gavaletz, A., Cowen, J. N., Apelian, T., Jeste, S. S., Ferretti, C. J., Taylor, B. P., Berlin, G., Noone, R., Antar, L. N., & Holl, E. (2015, May). Results from a Phase I Proof-of-Mechanism Study with a Vasopressin 1a Receptor Antagonist in ASD. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

96. Wall, C. A., Flink, L., Lansiquot, S. S., Kim, S. H., Shic, F., Koller, J., Chawarska, K., & Macari, S. (2015, May). Examining the Structure of Temperament Traits in Toddlers with and without ASD. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

97. Wang, Q., Macari, S., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2015, May). A Computational Approach to Eye-Tracking Analysis Reveals Slower Orienting to Movements in Social Scenes in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2015), Poster, Salt Lake City, UT.

98. Umbricht, D., Rubido, M. del V., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Boak, L., Bolognani, F., Fontoura, P., Wall, C. A., Jou, R. J., Loomis, R. L., Lyons, M. C., Gavaletz, A., Cowen, J. N., Apelian, T., Jeste, S. S., Ferretti, C. J., Taylor, B. P., Berlin, G., Noone, R., Antar, L. N., & Hollander, E. (2015, August). Results from a Phase I Proof-of-Mechanism Study with a Vasopressin 1a Receptor Antagonist in ASD. Presented at the 28th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP 2015), Poster, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Best Poster Award)

99. Umbricht, D., del Valle Rubido, M., Shic, F., McCracken, J. T., Scahill, L., Khwaja, O., Squassante, L., Fontoura, P., & Hollander, E. (2015, August). Olfaction is Associated with Ability to Recognize Emotions in High Functioning Autistic Subjects. Presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) 53rd Annual Meeting, Poster, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

100. Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2015, October). Eye tracking predictors of future development in 6-month high risk infants. Presented at the 2015 Baby Sibling Research Consortium, Talk, Chicago, IL.

101. Boccanfuso, L., Chen, L., Hudik, B., Snider, J. C., Sanfilippo, M., Ventola, P., Chawarska, K., O’Kane, J. M., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2015, November 7). The problems with “Look, don’t touch”: Designing robots to maximally benefit young children. Presented at the 2016 Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC), Poster, Worcester, MA.

102. Li, B., Boccanfuso, L., Valencia, S., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2015, November 7). Background Music and Sound Effects in Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at the 2016 Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC), Poster, Worcester, MA.

103. Boccanfuso, L., Ahn, A., Snider, J. C., Simmons, E., Lyons, M. C., Wall, C. A., Perlmutter, M., Konwar, K., Schrock, R., & Shic, F. (2016, April 7). Freespeech: Large-Scale Data from a New AAC Application Characterizes Usage for Young Children with ASD – One Size Does Not Fit All. Presented at the 2016 International Society for Research on Internet Interventions, Talk, Seattle, Washington.

104. Boccanfuso, L., Wall, C. A., DiNicola, L., Barney, E., Foster, C., Ahn, A., Ventola, P., Chawarska, K., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2016, April 7). Towards remote developmental phenotyping using robots. Presented at the 2016 International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII), Poster, Seattle, Washington.


105. Popple, B., Wall, C. A., Flink, L., Powell, K., Mademtzi, M., Discepolo, K., Keck, D., Volkmar, F., & Shic, F. (2016, April 7). Mobile delivery of video modeling as a promising paradigm for improving oral hygiene in children with autism. Presented at the 2016 International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII), Poster, Seattle, Washington.

106. Valencia, S., Perlmutter, M., Snider, J. C., Hudik, B., Streater, K., Barbosa, A. L., Arnold, R., Mayes, L., Smith, M., & Shic, F. (2016, April 7). Remote validation of smoking status: pilot results. Presented at the 2016 International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII), Poster, Seattle, Washington.

107. Ahn, Y. A., Wang, Q., Wall, C. A., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). The Effects of Others’ Speech during Activity Monitoring on Attention Patterns in Toddlers with and without ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

108. Barney, E. C., Boccanfuso, L., Foster, C., Wall, C. A., Scassellati, B., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). Identifying Attentional Differences in Children with and without ASD: A Human-Robot Interaction Study. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

109. Boccanfuso, L., Chen, L., Torres, C., Hudik, B., Snider, J. C., Sanfilippo, M., Ventola, P. E., Chawarska, K., O’Kane, J. M., Scassellati, B., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). The Problems with “Look, Don’t Touch”: Designing Robots to Maximally Benefit Young Children with ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

110. Caravella, K. E., Shic, F., Wang, Q., & Roberts, J. E. (2016, May 11-14). Biological Motion Preference and Autism Symptomatology in Adolescents with Fragile X Syndrome. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

111. DiNicola, L., Shic, F., Fontenelle, S. F., Powell, K. K., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2016, May 11-14). Attention Capture By Faces within a Naturalistic Scene in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

112. Foster, C., del Valle Rubido, M., McCracken, J., Hollander, E., Scahill, L., Boak, L., Khwaja, O., Bolognani, F., Fontoura, P., Umbricht, D., Jeste, S. S., Kim, E. S., Jou, R. J., Wall, C. A., & Shic, F. (2016a, May 11-14). The Effects of a Novel Vasopressin V1a Antagonist in Combination with Others’ Gaze Behaviors on Attention to Others’ Heads in Adults with ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

113. Foster, C., del Valle Rubido, M., McCracken, J., Hollander, E., Scahill, L., Boak, L., Khwaja, O., Bolognani, F., Fontoura, P., Umbricht, D., Jeste, S. S., Kim, E. S., Jou, R. J., Wall, C. A., & Shic, F. (2016b, May 11-14). Influences of Others’ Gaze Behaviors on Attentional Allocation during Activity Monitoring in Adults with and without ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

114. Hart, L., Valencia, S., Mademtzi, M., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). App for Autism: Identifying Trends in the App Market. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

115. Macari, S., DiNicola, L., Greco, G., Shic, F., Flink, L., Lansiquot, S. S., Powell, K. K., Fontenelle, S. F., & Chawarska, K. (2016, May 11-14). Fear Reactivity in Toddlers with ASD: Diminished Response and Atypical Associations with Visual Attention. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

116. Mademtzi, M., Popple, B., Wall, C. A., Flink, L., Dikansky, J., Do, D., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). The Effects of Video-Modeling on the Oral Hygiene of Children with Autism: A Promising


Paradigm. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

117. Mason, L., Shic, F., Loth, E., Banaschewski, T., Baron-Cohen, S., Bolte, S., Bourgeron, T., Charman, T., Durston, S., Johnson, M. H., Persico, A. M. M., Buitelaar, J. K., Murphy, D. G., & Spooren, W. (2016, May 11-14). Large Scale Eye Tracking in EU-AIMS Longitudinal Autism Research Project (LEAP): Methods and Preliminary Findings from a Biological Motion Task. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

118. Oien, R. A., Hart, L., Schjolberg, S., Wall, C. A., Kim, E. S., Eisemann, M. R., Chawarska, K., Volkmar, F. R., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). Sex-Differences in 17-30 Months Old Toddlers: An Analysis of the M-CHAT. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

119. Perez Fuster, P., Herrera, G., Ferrer, A., Mademtzi, M., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). Enhancing Joint Attention Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through an Augmented Reality Technology-Based Intervention. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

120. Shic, F., Wang, Q., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2016, May 11-14). Combining Multiple Eye Tracking Measures at 6 Months in Infant Siblings: Associations with Outcomes. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

121. Shic, F., Wang, Q., Wall, C. A., Naples, A., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2016, May 11-14). Eye Tracking in Between: Gaze Behaviors on Structural Trial Components in Toddlers with ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

122. Simmons, E. S., Wall, C. A., Mademtzi, M., Lyons, M. C., Paul, R., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). A Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of a Mobile Application to Treat Prosodic Deficits. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Talk, Baltimore, Maryland.

123. Valencia, S., Perez Fuster, P., Mademtzi, M., Hart, L., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). The Sensory Toy Box: An Interactive Game-Based Technology As an Assessment Tool. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

124. Wall, C. A., Rice, L., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). Understanding Theory of Mind Improvements As a Result of Face Processing Instruction. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

125. Wang, Q., Kim, E. S., Wall, C. A., Barney, E. C., Ahn, Y. A., Foster, C., Mademtzi, M., Perlmutter, M. G., Macari, S., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). Social Scene Manipulation through Gaze-Contingent Interfaces: Towards Automated Gaze Strategy Instruction for Young Children with ASD. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

126. Wang, Q., Wall, C. A., Barney, E. C., Ahn, Y. A., Foster, C., DiNicola, L., Kim, E. S., Li, B., Mademtzi, M., Perlmutter, M. G., Macari, S., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2016, May 11-14). Gaze-Contingent Event Triggering in the Social and Nonsocial Conditions. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Poster, Baltimore, Maryland.

127. Shic, F., Pierce, K., Mason, L., Parish-Morris, J., & Klin, A. (2016, May 14). Towards Big Data Approaches in Eye Tracking. Presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2016), Panel Session, Baltimore, Maryland.

128. Shic, F., Wang, Q., Kim, E. S., Wall, C. A., Barney, E. C., Ahn, Y. A., Foster, C., Mademtzi, M., Perlmutter, M. G., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2016, May 15). Social Scene Manipulation


through Gaze-Contingent Interfaces: Towards Automated Gaze Strategy Instruction for young children with ASD. Presented at the 16th Annual Vision Sciences Society Meeting (VSS2016), Poster, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

129. Wang, Q., Barney, E. C., Wall, C. A., DiNicola, L., Foster, C., Ahn, Y. A., Li, B., Chawarska, K., & Shic, F. (2016, May 18). Hybrid Calibration for Eye Tracking: Smooth Pursuit Trajectory with Anchor Points. Presented at the 16th Annual Vision Sciences Society Meeting (VSS2016), Poster, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

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Invited Lectures/Workshops/Presentations/Site Visits: (a) International 10/02/2012 Invited Speaker. “Eye Tracking”. European Cooperation in Science and

Technology Training School – Enhancing the Scientific Study of Early Autism (ESSEA), Upssala, Sweden.

12/19/2014 Invited Speaker. “Atypical Social Looking in Early Development in ASD: Computational Views and the Clinical Potential”. National Yang-Ming University, Psychology Department, Taipei, Taiwan.

06/10/2015 Invited Speaker. “Using Eye Tracking to Understand Autism”. Arctic Autism Conference, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway.

07/14/2015 Invited Speaker. “Social Looking in Autism: Computational Views on Development through Eye Tracking”. Center for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London, UK.

08/14/2015: Invited Speaker. “Eye Tracking in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Phenotypic Relationships and the Measurement of Treatment Response”. Roche Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland.

09/27/2015 Invited Speaker. “The Role of Assistive Technology in the Assessment and Treatment of ASD”. Autism - From Science to Practice. Krakow, Poland.

09/28/2015 Invited Speaker & Lecturer. “Eye Tracking in Early Development in ASD: Behavioral and Computational Perspectives” & “Eye Tracking: Nuts and Bolts”. Jagiellonian University, Psychology Department, Krakow, Poland.

09/29/2015 Invited Speaker. “The Role of Assistive Technology in the Assessment and Treatment of ASD”. Krakow Autism Center, Krakow, Poland.

03/11/2016 Invited Speaker (Keynote). “Visual Attention in Individuals with Autism: What they look at and what it tells us”. Dutch National Autism Congress 2016. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

(b) National 03/22/2011 Invited Speaker. “Time Domain Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”. Center

for Clinical Spectroscopy, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA, USA.

09/26/2013 Invited Speaker. “HandHold Adaptive”. Institute of Education Sciences SBIR Directors Meeting. Washington DC, USA.

10/10/2013 Invited Speaker. “The Evolving Role of Technology in the Lives of Children with Autism”. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.

04/03/2014 Invited Speaker. “What Eye tracking tells us about ASD: Behavioral and Computational Perspectives”. Center for Autism Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

06/08/2014 Invited Speaker. “Eye-Tracking: Targets, Paradigms, Analytics, Applications, and Challenges". Center for Autism Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.


11/07/2014 Invited Speaker. “The Early Autism Phenotype: Behavioral, Computational, and Statistical Perspectives from Eye Tracking”. University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

11/07/2014 Invited Speaker. “Eye Tracking”. University of South Carolina Special Tutorial Session, Columbia, South Carolina.

11/10/2014 Invited Speaker. “What Eye Tracking Tells Us About Infants and Toddlers with Autism”. Joint meeting of the NSF Expeditions in Computational Behavioral Science and Socially Assistive Robotics, Atlanta, Georgia.

11/25/2014 Invited Speaker. “Looking at Looking in Autism: Eye-tracking Explorations from Infancy to Adults with ASD using Behavioral, Computational, and Statistical Approaches”. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

09/21/2015 Invited Speaker. “Social Looking in ASD: Examining Development through Eye Tracking and Computational Approaches”. Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, Weill Cornell Medical School, White Plains, New York.

05/27/2015 Invited Speaker. “Everyday Science and Everyday Technology in the Lives of Children with Autism: An Unfair, Biased, Unsorted Series of Slides”. Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA.

02/19/2016 Invited Speaker. “Looking at Looking in Autism: Behavioral, Statistical, and Computational Perspectives on Eye Tracking across Development”. Institute of Child Development. University of Minnesota, MN.

05/14/2016 Panel Session Chair. “Towards Big Data Approaches in Eye Tracking”. International Meeting for Autism Research. Baltimore, MD.

05/17/2016 Invited Speaker. "Tracking Intervention Effects with Eye Tracking: Challenges, Concepts, and Approach". Simons Foundation. New York, NY.

(c) Regional 01/02/2011 Invited Speaker. “Activity Monitoring, Observational Learning, and Autism”.

Greenwich Lecture Series, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, CT. 04/05/2012 Invited Speaker. “Adapting Technology in the Service of Treatments”. Allied

World Health special presentation, Middlebury, CT. 04/18/2012 Invited Speaker. “The Mind’s Eye: what eye-tracking tells us about autism

across the lifespan”. Greenwich Lecture Series, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, CT.

04/25/2013 Invited Talk. “The Technology and Innovation Laboratory”. Prometheus Systems, LLC, New Haven, CT.

09/13/2014 Invited Talk. “Everyday Technologies in the Lives of Individuals with ASD”. Autism Speaks Autism Science Conference, New Haven, Connecticut.

02/05/2015 Invited Talk (Keynote). Hacking for Autism: Thinking Small and Big”. Yale BulldogHACKS: Hack the Brain, New Haven, CT.

02/26/2016 Invited Talk. “Technology and Innovation Laboratory: Shark Tank”. Center for Children with Special Needs. Glastonbury, CT.

03/05/2016 Invited Talk (Keynote). “Combining Technology and Fitness to Empower Children and Science”. ASD Fitness. Orange, CT.


Patents: Other Work Experience: Career/Academic Appointments 1996 Software Engineer, Dreamer’s Guild, Chatsworth, California 1996-1999 Software Engineer, Sony Interactive Studios, San Diego, California 1999-2002 Research Associate, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California

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