Judy Brown | |
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Born | |
Alma mater |
Rice University University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Constant-Q transform |
Awards | Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics Signal processing Bioacoustics |
Institutions |
Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay Wellesley College MIT |
Judith "Judy" C. Brown is an American physicist and professor emerita at Wellesley College. [1] She was a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab in the Machine Listening Group for over 20 years, and is recognized for her contributions in music information retrieval, including developing the constant-Q transform. [2] [3] She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and has served on the ASA technical committees for musical acoustics and animal bioacoustics. [1]
Brown was born in Teague, Texas and attended Rice University for her bachelor's degree in chemistry. [4] She attended the University of California, Berkeley for her PhD and then spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in solid state physics at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay. [2] She then joined the faculty in the physics department at Wellesley College, where she taught the first quantum mechanics course at Wellesley. [1] She joined the MIT Media Lab as a visiting scientist in 1986 to conduct research on computer perception of music and developed classification algorithms for marine mammal sounds. [2] She was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1999 for her contributions in applying signal processing to musical acoustics, frequency tracking, instrument identification, and spectral analysis. [5] She retired in 2005. [1]