Joseph Mercado FRIEdr (Tagalog pronunciation: [mɚkado], born July 2, 1972) is a Filipino statistician, professor, businessperson and university administrator who served as dean and vice president at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines from 2006 to 2018.

[1][2] Mercado has co-authored scientific publications involving pharmaceutical sciences,[3] economic analysis,[4] and sociological analysis[5] and received the Distinguished Research Award from the Academic International Consortium of Indonesia for his work in 2016.

After a short five-month stint as executive director, Mercado then served as the vice president for branches and campuses for three years.

[10] Mercado has authored and co-authored several scientific publications that have been recognized in national and international journals.

[4][11][12] Among them are, but not limited to; "Mathematical Model for Estimating Income Tax Revenues in the Philippines through Regression Analysis using Matrices"[4] "Predicting Spousal Physical Violence in the Philippines: a Binary Logistic Regression Analysis” for the European Academic and Research Network;[11] and “Modeling the Philippines Real Gross Domestic Product: A Normal Estimation Equation For Multiple Linear Regression” for the American Institute of Physics’ Journal.