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
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
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