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A practitioner-academic building AI that earns its place in production.

Dr Jonathan A. Tepper founded Perceptronix Ltd in 2018 after two decades at the intersection of academic research and industrial AI delivery. Today the practice operates from the UK, blends consultancy with continuing university research, and is trusted by partners spanning capital markets, sports analytics, and macroeconomic policy.

Jon's PhD focused on novel neural network architectures for natural language understanding — work that seeded a long-running research programme on multi-recurrent networks (MRNs): deep recurrent ensembles whose recurrent state is structured to capture multi-scale temporal dependencies. MRN ensembles remain at the heart of Perceptronix's forecasting and classification systems today.

Across 20+ years he has shipped AI into production for trading desks, sports analytics teams, healthcare research groups, and cross-disciplinary economics collaborations. His current academic role with NIESR and the University of Birmingham produced MASCET, an EPSRC-funded macroeconomic forecasting platform whose neural ensemble has, on multiple occasions, outperformed the Survey of Professional Forecasters at detecting US inflation turning points by as much as five months.

Beyond research, Jon designed and led one of the UK's earliest applied MSc Data Analytics for Business programmes, has supervised six PhDs to completion, and continues to teach data science to executives, analysts, and engineers.

What clients consistently say they value most: a no-nonsense, evidence-led approach that treats AI as engineering — versioned, monitored, validated, and accountable — rather than as a demo.

Career

Selected roles

  1. 2018 — present

    Founder & Principal AI Consultant

    Perceptronix Ltd

    Production AI for time-series forecasting, classification, and decision support. Capital markets, sports analytics, macroeconomics.

  2. 2022 — present

    Visiting Senior Research Fellow

    Aston Business School (Aston University)

    Co-investigator on AI for macroeconomic forecasting; supervising doctoral research at the intersection of deep learning and economics.

  3. 2020 — 2022

    Honorary Senior Research Fellow

    University of Birmingham — School of Computer Science

    Collaborative research on neural ensemble methods and inflation forecasting with NIESR.

  4. 2007 — 2020

    Principal Lecturer & MSc Course Leader, Data Analytics for Business

    Nottingham Trent University

    Designed and led one of the UK's earliest applied MSc Data Analytics programmes; supervised 6 PhDs to completion.

Let's build something measurable

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Tell us about it. First conversations are confidential, no-obligation, and usually end with a clear view of feasibility, data needs, and time-to-value.

Email Tepper jtepper@perceptronix.net