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Professor Weiss pioneers synthetic biology. He has been engaged in synthetic biology research since 1996 as a graduate student at MIT, where he helped set up a wet-lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. After completing his PhD, Weiss joined the faculty at Princeton University before returning to MIT to take a tenured faculty position in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on engineering cells to build circuits that can perform useful tasks autonomously and elucidating the design principles underlying complex phenotypes. His laboratory investigates how cells sense their environment and process information to continuously react to internal and external stimuli, employing synthetic gene networks to improve the understanding of naturally existing regulatory functions in cells. The Weiss lab uses principles of computer engineering to program cells as sensors and actuators, controlled by analog and digital logic circuitry, enabling a wide range of new programmed cell applications.