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. 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).