Won-Jae Yi received his B.S. in Computer Engineering (cum laude, 2010), M.S. in Computer Engineering (2012), and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (2017), all from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech). First starting at Illinois Tech as an Undergraduate Laboratory Supervisor and Manager for Computer Facilities in 2017, Won-Jae started teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor in 2018. In Fall 2022, he started to serve the ECE Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor, and in Fall 2024, he was promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech. Also, he is the Undergraduate Laboratory and Computing Facilities Supervisor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech.

Won-Jae has more than 13 years of experience in research in the field of Internet of Things, wireless body sensor networks, wearable devices for health monitoring systems, FPGAs and SoCs, cyber physical system and data security, low-powered wireless personal area network systems and protocols, information processing and data fusion for IoT based embedded systems, artificial intelligence and edge computing. Also, he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech including Software Engineering, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing, and Microcomputer Assembly Language.

In Spring 2023, Won-Jae received the 2023 Bauer Family Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.