Dr. Noon is head of the department of Business Analytics & Statistics at the University of Tennessee. He is a founding member of the highly-ranked Physician Executive MBA program and continues to teach in the program. Dr. Noon also teaches in the department’s Masters and PhD programs, and in a number of executive education programs including the longstanding “Lean for Healthcare” offered by the University of Tennessee.

His teaching interests include operational improvement, business modeling, simulation, and decision analysis & support. He holds a PhD in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. His published research concerns computer-based modeling and process improvement.