Resume (updated to March 2026)

• 2025.01 - now

Department of Chemical Engineering - KU Leuven 

Post-Doctoral Researcher

• 2022.09 - 2024.11

Chemical Engineering Department - Kyung Hee University 

Post-Doctoral Researcher

• 2017.09 - 2022.08

Chemical Engineering Department - Kyung Hee University 

Graduate Student Researcher

Other Experiences

• 2016.03 - 2017.08

Phuong Chau International Hospital (Vietnam)

Embryologist - Medical Secretary 

• • • Quality Assurance and Quality Control in IVF Lab.

    • Evidence-based medicine literature review service for doctors.

    • Clinical pathways and clinical protocols management.

• 2014.08 - 2015.11

Ministry of Science and Technology (Vietnam)

Assistant Project Coordinator 

• • • Sub-project coordinator in The National Program "Improving productivity and quality of products and goods of Vietnam's enterprises in 2020".

    • Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consulting Services

    • Intellectual Property Consulting Services

• 2017.09 - 2022.08

Kyung Hee University  (South Korea)

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Seo Tae Seok

Integrative NanoBioMEMS lab

Lab website: nanobiomems.khu.ac.kr

• 2009.09 - 2014.03

Can Tho University (Vietnam) - Michigan State University (USA) 

Bachelor of Science in Advanced Biotechnology

Advisor: Associate Prof. Nguyen Huu Hiep

Institute website: ifb.ctu.edu.vn/en/

• H. K. Bui, V. M. Phan, H. Q. Nguyen, Y. H. Kim, S. W. Kang, S. R. Kim , M. Y. Lee, W. I. Lee, T. S. Seo. Development of a high-throughput centrifugal thermal cycler by an innovative non-contact induction heating mechanism for rapid diagnosis of respiratory infectious viruses. Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical (2025) 444, 138487. doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2025.138487

• H. K. Bui, T. T. H. Nguyen, T. S. Seo. Rainbow reactor: Creation of a series of perovskite nanocrystals in a single customizable Couette-Taylor reactor. Chemical Engineering Journal (2025) 509, 161297. doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.161297

• H. K. Bui, T. T. H. Nguyen, J. Y. Im, T. S. Seo. Cognitively Driven Autonomous Flow Chemistry for Producing On-Demand Perovskite Quantum Dots Via Advanced Closed-Loop Feedback Control. Small Methods (2024) 2400094. doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202400094

• H. K. Bui, T. T. H. Nguyen, T. D. Dao, T. S. Seo. A Proportional–Integral Feedback Controlled Automatic Flow Chemistry System to Produce On-Demand AgAu Alloy Nanoboxes. Small Structures (2023) 2300397. doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202300397

• H. K. Bui, V. M. Phan, H. Q. Nguyen, V. D. Nguyen, H. V. Nguyen, T. S. Seo. Function of the Speech Recognition of the Smartphone to Automatically Operate a Portable Sample Pretreatment Microfluidic System. ACS Sensors (2023) 8, 2, 515–521. doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.2c01849

• H. K. Bui, T. D. Dao, T. S. Seo. On-and-off feedback control with hysteresis algorithm for automatic flow chemistry synthesis of the desired MAPbBrXI3-X quantum dot. Chemical Engineering Journal (2022) 429, 132516. doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132516

• H. K. Bui, K. Y. Kim, H. Kim, J. P. Ahn, T. Yu, T. S. Seo. Total Integration of the Sample Injection, Microdroplet Reaction, Phase Separation, Real‐Time Optical Detection, and Recovery of Diverse Silver–Gold Bimetallic Nanoalloys in a Continuous Process. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization (2021), 38, 2000244. doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.202000244

• H. K. Bui, T. S. Seo. A micrometer head integrated microfluidic device for facile droplet size control and automatic measurement of a droplet size. Electrophoresis (2020), 41, 306–310. doi.org/10.1002/elps.201900350

• T. T. H. Nguyen, H. K. Bui, H. V. Nguyen, G. Sureshkumar, T. S. Seo. Synthesis of On-Demand Gold Nanoparticles with Precision Morphologies through an Automatic Feedback Control Quenching System. ACS Applied Nano Materials (2025) 8, 13322–13331. doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.5c01548

• T. T. T. Truong, H. K. Bui, V. H. Nguyen, T. S. Seo. Development of a merry-go-round inspired automatic paper-based ELISA system for colorimetric detection of SARS-CoV-2. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2025) 445, 138531. doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2025.138531

• V. D. Nguyen, H. Q. Nguyen, H. K. Bui, Y. J. Kang, T. S. Seo. A smartphone-controllable molecular diagnostic platform for SARS-CoV-2 detection by reverse-transcription recombinase polymerase amplification. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical  (2024) 398, 134728. doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2023.134728

• V. M. Phan, H. Q. Nguyen, H. K. Bui, H. V. Nguyen, T. S. Seo. Combination of a robotic solution pipetting device with a centrifugal molecular diagnostic platform for fully automatic respiratory infectious virus detection from nasopharyngeal swab samples. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical  (2023) 394, 134362. doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2023.134362

• H. Q. Nguyen, H. K. Bui, V. M. Phan, T. S. Seo. An internet of things-based point-of-care device for direct reverse-transcription-loop mediated isothermal amplification to identify SARS-CoV-2. Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2022) 195, 113655. doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2021.113655

• V. D. Nguyen, H. Q. Nguyen, H. K. Bui, Y. S. Ko, B. J. Park, T. S. Seo. Handheld-type total integrated capillary electrophoresis system for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics: Power, fluorescence detection, and data analysis by smartphone. Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2022), 195, 113632. doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2021.113632

• V. D. Nguyen, H. V. Nguyen, H. K. Bui, T. S. Seo. Smartphone-powered capillary electrophoresis on a chip for foodborne bacteria detection. Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical (2019), 301, 127108. doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2019.127108

• Seo Tae Seok, Bui Hoang Khang. Apparatus and method for synthesizing heterogeneous materials using a flow chemistry system with integrated PID feedback. Korean Patent CDP20230377

• Seo Tae Seok, Bui Hoang Khang.  Couette-Taylor vortex reactor design. Korean Patent Application RPT-202092-0000004, filed September 2020. Patent Pending.

• Seo Tae Seok, Bui Hoang Khang. Function of the Speech Recognition of the Smartphone to Automatically Operate a Portable Sample Pretreatment Microfluidic System. Korean Patent Application RPT-202282-00000043, filed August 2022. Patent Pending.

• Best Presentation (2022.12) Annual conference of Vietnamese young scientist in South Korea

• Excellent Paper Presentation Award (2022.05) Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry - KSIEC Spring Meeting, Jeju, South Korea

• Best Paper Award (2022.02) Kyung Hee University - BK21 program

• (Kyung Hee) University President Scholarship (2017 - 2020) Full tuition fee for PhD courses

• Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Scholarship (2017-2022) 

• Best Paper Award (2015.09) Asian Network for Quality - ANQ Congress 2015

Oral presentation

• Autonomous Flow Synthesis of On-Demand Hybrid Perovskite Quantum Dots based on a Closed-Loop Feedback Control System. Materials Research Society, MRS Spring Meeting 2024

• A voice-controlled portable DNA extraction system. 33rd Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors, Biosensors 2023

• Automatic and on-demand synthesis of AgAu alloy nanoboxes by PID control. The 8th Annual Conference of Vietnamese Young Scientists, ACVYS 2022

• A PID feedback control-based automatic flow chemistry system to produce on-demand AgAu alloy nanoboxes. 130th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society, 2022

• On-and-off feedback control with hysteresis algorithm for automatic flow chemistry synthesis of the desired MAPbBrXI3-X quantum dot. The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, KSIEC Spring Meeting 2022

Poster presentation

• Automatic and on-demand synthesis of AgAu alloy nanoboxes by PID control. European Materials Research Society, E-MRS Spring Meeting 2023

Grants

• [Phase 4 BK21] [Khreative U+ 2023 SDGs Emerging Research Talent] Development of a smartphone-based genetic diagnosis integrated system for detection of multiple respiratory viruses, 10M KRW from Kyung Hee University, 2023-2024

Participated projects

• Development of optimal nanomaterials using real-time automatic control micro-integrated processor, from National Research Foundation of Korea, 2020-2024

• Crystal Functionalization Process Technology Center, from National Research Foundation of Korea, 2017-2024

• Basic research on antibody efficacy evaluation using a high-efficiency rotary microdevice, from Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2023

• Development of a rotating point-of-care molecular diagnostics system for rapid and high-throughput diagnosis of multiple types of respiratory viruses, from Korea Health Industry Development Institute, 2022-2024

• Intelligent Multidimensional Printing Materials and System Convergence Technology Education Research Group, from National Research Foundation of Korea (BK21), 2020-2024 

• Basic research on antibody efficacy evaluation using biochips, from Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2022

• Development of multiple rapid detection kits such as COVID-19 virus based on gene amplification, from Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, National Institute of Health, 2021-2022

• Chemistry in Pictures: Alexa, start my genome extraction. C&EN

• Voice-activated system for hands-free, safer DNA handling. EurekAlert

• Voice-activated system for hands-free, safer DNA handling. Phys.org

• Voice-activated system for hands-free, safer DNA handling. ScienceDaily

• Voice-activated system for hands-free pathogen handling. LabOnline

• VinFuture Prize nominator and evaluator, 2021 - present

• Member of Korean Chemical Society (KCS), 2022 - present

• Member of Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC), 2021 - present