Richard Salvi is a distinguished professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Science and is the director of the Center for Hearing and Deafness at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Salvi received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Syracuse University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY.

He has a long-standing interest in noise-induced hearing loss, ototoxicity, aging, tinnitus, hyperacusis, loudness intolerance associated with autism, functional brain imaging, neuroplasticity, cell death, regeneration and otoprotection. He has served on many editorial boards, grant review panels and advisory boards.