# Paul Nemirovsky

> Paul Nemirovsky is the cofounder and CEO of dMetrics, the Brooklyn-born AI company behind Minsky, a natural language processing platform that lets non-technical experts steer AI across the world's largest financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations. An MIT Media Lab PhD who once built musical navigation shoes and showed interactive art at the Centre Pompidou, he has grown dMetrics from two founders to a 40-person team without venture capital, and in 2024 the company landed a Department of Defense AI/ML production contract worth up to $99.5 million.

- **Role:** Cofounder & CEO at dMetrics
- **Organizations:** dMetrics, MIT Media Lab
- **Education:** PhD, machine learning / media arts and sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Lab), Master of Science (SM), thesis 'Aesthetic Forms of Expression as Information Delivery Units', Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Cofounded and scaled dMetrics from 2 founders to a team of ~40 without venture capital, Built the Minsky AI/NLP platform used by major financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations, Won a Department of Defense Production OT contract worth up to $99.5 million for AI/ML work

## Career timeline

- **pre-1997** — Worked as lead programmer at multiple high-tech companies before graduate school
- **1999** — Earned MS at MIT; co-authored GuideShoes musical navigation research presented at CHI 99
- **2002-2006** — PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab, Media Fabrics group; built the Emonic Environment, Emonator, and other interactive systems
- **2009** — Cofounded dMetrics with MIT researcher Ariadna Quattoni, originally in Boston
- **2015** — dMetrics (then known for its DecisionEngine) profiled by MIT News; relocated to Brooklyn, New York
- **2024** — dMetrics awarded Department of Defense AI/ML Production OT contract with a ceiling of $99.5 million

## Achievements

- Cofounded and scaled dMetrics from 2 founders to a team of ~40 without venture capital
- Built the Minsky AI/NLP platform used by major financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations
- Won a Department of Defense Production OT contract worth up to $99.5 million for AI/ML work
- Secured four National Science Foundation grants for dMetrics' research
- Created interactive artworks exhibited at venues including the Centre Pompidou and the DeCordova Museum
- Built GuideShoes, an audio-based wearable navigation system, as part of his MIT research

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — dMetrics announced a U.S. Department of Defense AI/ML production contract with a ceiling of up to $99.5 million, supporting multiagency efforts led by the Defense Technical Information Center.

## Links

- Website: https://dmetrics.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulnemi
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dmetrics_

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Last updated: 2026-06-21