Noah Trudeau, PhD, is an assistant professor of data analytics at Troy University. His research specializes in occupational regulation. He is a coauthor of the State Occupational Licensing Index (SOLI) produced by the Archbridge Institute. When not working on regulatory studies, Noah studies and contributes to pedagogy for the classroom by designing new methods for encouraging student engagement. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from West Virginia University. Before that, he received an MA in economics from Troy University and a BS in economics from Jacksonville State University. He is a research fellow with the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University and the Archbridge Institute.