Her current research focuses on privacy, ethics, and trust in big data for precision medicine and health quantification for connected and autonomous vehicles, both projects she presented at National Institutes of Health conferences. She teaches courses on privacy, ethics, and governance of big data; cybersecurity policy; legal and policy issues of the Internet of Things; Chinese domestic and foreign policy; and East Asian foreign policy. Dr. Brown received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Political Science, specializing in Chinese studies, from the University of Michigan and B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Florida. She held a visiting scholar position at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii and participated in the Summer Cyberlaw Program at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law School.