Daniel Povey is a British researcher in the fields of speech recognition and artificial intelligence. After graduating from Cambridge University, he held research positions at Microsoft and IBM from 2003 to 2012. 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. Later in August 2019, after being fired by Johns Hopkins, Povey was slated to begin working for Facebook, but he rejected Facebook's conditions of employment just days before he would have begun working for them. He was appointed the chief speech scientist at Xiaomi in November 2019, and continued to hold this position as of October 2020. He is also the primary architect and maintainer of Kaldi.