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.
[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.
[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.