Professor Weiss received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, his doctorate in Bioengineering at the University of Utah in 1994, and completed postdoctoral training with the Applied Mechanics Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1994-96). He holds the titles of Professor of Bioengineering, Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing, Adjunct Professor of Orthopedics, and Faculty Member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah.Professor Weiss has received a number of highly coveted honors, including a Whitaker Foundation Research Grant (1995), a NSF CAREER Award (2002), the ASME YC Fung Young Investigator Award (2002), Election to Fellow of the AIMBE (2006), the ASME Van C. Mow Medal (2013), Election to Fellow of the ASME (2018), the Distinguished Research Award from the University of Utah, and several Best Paper awards.