She directed the Harvey Mudd College Global Clinic program from 2009 to 2014.
She is also the co-director of the Harvey Mudd College Center for Quantitative Life Sciences.
[2] De Pillis earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Heinz-Otto Kreiss.
[4] Her continuing research has produced mathematical models of newly developing immunotherapies, combination therapies, and the emergence of autoimmune diseases.
[6] In 2017 she was a HERS-CBL Clare Boothe Luce Leadership in STEM Scholar.