About Us

Robert H. Margolis, President

Robert H. Margolis earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kent State University (1968, 1969) and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (1974). After a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, he joined the faculty of the UCLA Medical School in 1975. In 1980, he was appointed associate professor of communication sciences and disorders and director of the Gebbie Hearing Clinic at Syracuse University. In 1988 he became professor and director of Audiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. In 2000 he established AUDIOLOGY INCORPORATED to develop better methods for testing hearing. In 2012 he became Professor emeritus in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Minnesota and continued to direct the Audiology Research Laboratory until 2016. In 2016 he was appointed adjunct professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University. Margolis has 150 publications in scientific and clinical journals and textbooks. His research has focused on development of methods for evaluating disorders of hearing. He has been awarded research grants from the Deafness Research Foundation, NATO Division of Scientific Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. His current research focuses on the development and clinical validation of automated tests of hearing. Margolis and his wife Janet lives in Arden Hills, Minnesota. They have two adult daughters. He enjoys tennis, fishing, and biking. (See Curriculum Vitae)

George L. Saly, Chief Technology Officer

George L. Saly earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Mathematics from Queen’s University (1972). He worked for Hewlett-Packard and then started Arris Systems, a software development firm in 1977. He has been a team leader in real-time process control applications for soil stability monitoring at mines, secure automated fueling distribution at fleet fueling sites, various biomedical applications, and network management in industrial and medical environments. He was a collaborator and consultant for the University of Minnesota Audiology Research Laboratory from 1998-2016.  In 2007 he became a partner in AUDIOLOGY INCORPORATED. His work in Audiology includes development of an acoustic reflectance measurement system, a three-dimensional data analysis method for the study of normal and abnormal middle ear function, and software implementation of AMTAS, AMCLASS, and AMTEST. He and his wife, Jane, live in Canmore, Alberta, and have a son and a daughter. He enjoys the outdoors, skiing, scrambling, hiking, biking, canoeing and fishing.