Robert Purnell currently works as a Senior Design Assurance Engineer at Autonomous Medical Devices Incoporated (AMDI), a medical device company focused on advancing cloud-based clinical diagnostics for COVID-19. Prior to his employment at AMDI, Dr. Purnell worked as a Lead Research Scientist and Project Manager at multiple startup companies focused on emerging vitro diagnostic device based on blood-based biomarkers for infectious diseases. Dr. Purnell received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA in 2010, with a focus on Bioinstrumentation.