Daniel Povey is a British researcher in the fields of speech recognition and artificial intelligence.
[1] He worked at Johns Hopkins University as a nontenured associate research professor in the Whiting School of Engineering prior to being fired in August 2019.
[2] He was appointed the chief speech scientist at Xiaomi in November 2019, and continued to hold this position as of October 2020.
[3] By 8 May 2019, protestors at Johns Hopkins University had reached day 35 of a sit-in protest of campus militarization and local police agencies in Garland Hall, restricting access to all faculty and students.
Although Povey was adamant that he was the one being attacked in the videos, the university stated that a multitude of Povey's actions, such as leading a group of counter-protestors around campus at 12 am with a set of bolt cutters, threatened the safety of the students and university.