Joseph Mercado

At present, Mercado is a member of the Philippine Statistical Association, Philippine Association for Teacher Education (PAFTE), the Rotary Club of New Manila Heights and a Fellow of Royal Institution based in Singapore. He started a business franchise partnership with Seriously Addictive Maths Singapore (S.A.M) in 2019 and opened a branch in Manila.

After leaving his seat as Vice President for Research, Extension, Planning and Development, Mercado, with his wife, started a business franchise partnership with Seriously Addictive Maths Singapore (S.A.M) and opened a branch in Manila, in November of 2019.

Among them are, but not limited to; “Mathematical Model for Estimating Income Tax Revenues in the Philippines through Regression Analysis using Matrices” “Predicting Spousal Physical Violence in the Philippines: a Binary Logistic Regression Analysis” for the European Academic and Research Network; and “Modeling the Philippines Real Gross Domestic Product: A Normal Estimation Equation For Multiple Linear Regression” for the American Institute of Physics’ Journal.

In 2011, Mercado accepted an offer to complete a PhD on Criminology at the Philippine College of Criminology, with his brother Marlon Lim. After being designated as the Vice President of Research, Extension, Planning and Development of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, he attended an Executive Development Program held by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) with other university administrators to further his knowledge on higher education management.

In 2004, Mercado first sat as the Acting Director of PUP Ragay. Consequently, in 2006, he was appointed as the director of PUP Sto. Tomas Batangas and then designated as the Dean of the College of Science. At the same time, he was also the Assistant Director of Center for Data and Statistical Analysis. Three years later, he became the Executive Director for Branches and Campuses. Mercado then sat as the Vice President for Branches and Campuses for another three years. In late 2015, Mercado was then appointed by Emanuel de Guzman, the university's President, to be the Vice President for Research, Extension, Planning and Development. To pursue personal endeavours, Mercado resigned from office in mid-2018. However, he still serves as a faculty member and professor in College of Science and teaches basic statistics, quantitative business analysis, management science statistics and other higher statistics subjects. He also manages several working groups and committees such as the Federasyon ng mga Alumni Associations sa PUP, Inc (FEDAAPI), Unyon ng mga guro sa PUP, etc.

Mercado finished a Bachelor of Applied Statistics degree in 1993, a Master of Applied Science degree in 2000 and a Doctor of Educational Management degree in 2003 at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Joseph Mercado FRIEdr (born July 2, 1972) is a Filipino statistician, professor, businessperson and university administrator who was a former Dean and Vice President of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Mercado has co-authored scientific publications involving pharmaceutical sciences, economic analysis, and sociological analysis and received the Distinguished Research Award from the Academic International Consortium of Indonesia for his work in 2016.

Mercado was born on July 2, 1972 in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro to Santos Lim and Lolita Tan. His ancestry includes Filipino and Chinese. He completed primary education in his hometown, Mindoro, before moving to Metro Manila for further studies.