Cheryl L. Brown
Cheryl L. Brown
Dr. Cheryl L. Brown, Ph.D., is Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, a faculty affiliate of the School of Data Science, a member of the AI Center for Human Digital Twin and Computational Health, and a member of the Center for TAIMing AI at of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A University of Michigan graduate, her research emphasizes the intersection of AI, machine learning, and data privacy in mitigating negative health outcomes and a cross-sectional responsible framework for AI technology acceptance. She is the contact lead PI of an AIM-AHEAD National Institutes of Health multidisciplinary research team in biomedical informatics, computer science,
engineering, medicine, and political science on the project, “Addressing Health Inconsistencies
in Heart Transplant through Fair AI/ML Approaches” during 2023-2025. The team presented its AI and Heart Health Summit in Charlotte, NC in March 2025. Dr. Brown presented her research on Cultural Humility Plus and Explainable AI at the AI and Medicine (AIME 2024) Conference in Salt Lake City in July 2024, and at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine on March 5, 2025. She was an invited featured speaker at the AIM-AHEAD National Institutes of Health Annual Meeting in July 2025. In 2025- 2026, she is a co-PI on the multidisciplinary research team NIH grant on a mixture of experts in the digital twin health framework. Her related writings include topics on health biometrics and data protection in China and the United States; China’s second-generation identification card and RFID technology; protection of genomic privacy data; robotics and deep-sea mining; and socioeconomic and landscape determinants of machine learning. She was selected to join the ethics in computer science working group at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer Science Education Conference and attended the ACM Turing Celebration Conference in Chengdu, Sichuan, China in May 2019, which led to the working group joint publication on ethics in computer science education. Dr. Brown is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association, American Political Science Association, American Public Health Association, Association for Asian Studies, Association for Computing Machinery, Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).