Professor David Percy

• Maxwell 320
• T: 0161 295 4710
• E: d.f.percy@salford.ac.uk
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Monday: 12.00pm – 2.00pm

Having graduated from the Universities of Loughborough and Liverpool, I joined the University of Salford as a lecturer in 1991 and progressed to a personal chair in 2008. During this time, I have served as Admissions Tutor for the BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, Industrial Placements Tutor for the BSc (Hons) in Business Operation and Control, and Course Leader for the MSc in Operational Research and Applied Statistics. I have also taught many modules and supervised many projects on these courses.

Jointly with colleagues, I have received several research council grants for maintenance modelling and health care, organised two IMA International Conferences on Mathematics in Sport and conducted randomness testing for the National Lottery Commission. I have published fifty-five refereed research papers and book chapters, graduated nine PhD students and one MPhil student, and organised three streams at national Operational Research Society Conferences.

Having recently completed two terms as Council Member for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, I currently serve as Member of the Finance Committee and Conference Strategy Committee and as Chairman of the North West Branch. Previously, I served as Chairman for the General Applications Section and Member of the Manchester Group for the Royal Statistical Society.

Current teaching comprises modules on Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research for the undergraduate mathematics course. I also supervise individual students for undergraduate mathematics projects and postgraduate business dissertations.

Research interests include mathematics, statistics and operational research with applications in reliability & maintenance, medicine & health and sports & games. I am Associate Director of the Centre for Sports Business Analytics and Member of the national Mathematical Methods in Reliability Research Consortium.

• Bachelor of Science with first class honours in Mathematical Studies
• Diploma in Industrial Studies
• Doctor in Philosophy
• Chartered Mathematician
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• Member of the Operational Research Society
• Chartered Scientist

Bell SA and Percy DF (to appear) Modelling uncertainty in preventive maintenance scheduling. Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering International.

Percy DF (2012) Generic handicapping for paralympic sports. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, doi:10.1093/imaman/dps013.

Samat NA and Percy DF (2012) Vector borne infectious disease mapping with stochastic difference equations: an analysis of dengue disease in Malaysia. Journal of Applied Statistics, doi:10.1080/02664763.2012.700450.

Percy DF (2012) The optimal dartboard? Mathematics Today, 48.

Perrin RN, Richards JD, Pentreath V and Percy DF (2011) Muscle fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and its response to a manual therapeutic approach: A pilot study. International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, 14, 96-105.

Chadwick EA, Sandiford KJ and Percy DF (2011) Assessing student teams developing mathematical models applied to business and industrial mathematics. MSOR Connections, 11, 22-24.

Kearney JR, Percy DF and Kobbacy KAH (2011) Modelling preventive maintenance as a decay process for a two-state system. Ingenieria y Gestion de Mantenimiento, 74, 20-25.

Percy DF (2011) Prior elicitation: a compromise between idealism and pragmatism. Mathematics Today, 47, 142-147.

Percy DF (2011) Interactive shrinkage methods for class handicapping. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 22, 139-156.

Hussain Z, Pickering V, Percy DF, Crane J and Bogg J (2011) An analysis of the experiences of radiography and radiotherapy students who are carers at one UK university. Radiography, 17, 49-54.

Percy DF, Kearney JR and Kobbacy KAH (2010) Hybrid intensity models for repairable systems. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 21, 395-406.

Iswaran N and Percy DF (2010) Conflict analysis using Bayesian neural networks and generalized linear models. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 332-341.