Awards
Outstanding Poster Award in Bioarrays Research, Bioarrays-2003-New York Meeting presented by GeneExpression SystemsTM, Inc., New York, NY (2003) Tae Seok Seo “Fluorescence Imaging Chip System for DNA Sequencing by Synthesis”
Outstanding Poster Award in The Spring Meeting of the Korean Biochip Society, Daejeon (2009) Jong Young Choi, Hyon Bin Na, Kumaran R. S., Taeghwan Hyeon, Tae Seok Seo “Microfluidic Single Cell Array to Detect Cytotoxic ROS Gene Expression”
Outstanding Poster Award in The Fall meeting of the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Seoul (2009) Fei Liu, and Tae Seok Seo “A Novel Method for Preparation of Large-Area Graphene Oxide Films”
Grand Award in The 22nd International Symposium on Chemical Engineering, Daejeon (2009) Jae Hwan Jung, Fei Liu and Tae Seok Seo "Immuno-Biosensor System Based on Graphene Oxide for Pathogen Detection"
Outstanding Poster Award in the Spring Meeting of the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Seoul (2010) Fei Liu and Tae Seok Seo “Highly Conductive Graphene-Based Electrochemical Sensor for Ultrasensitive Rotavirus Detection”
Being selected for the “People Brightening Korea” from Biology Research Information Center (BRIC) (2010), Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo “A Graphene Oxide Based Immuno-biosensor for Pathogen Detection”.
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Studying Abroad, (2010) Fei Liu and Tae Seok Seo
Being selected for the MARQUIS Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012, MARQUIS Who’s Who (2011), Tae Seok Seo
Poster Presentation Award in the Graduate Student’s Symposium in CBE, KAIST (2011) Ki Seok Choi and Tae Seok Seo
Best Paper Award Certificate for the paper entitled of ISMM conference, (2011) Chen Yuchao, Tae Seok Seo “Integrated RT-PCR-ROSGENE Strip Device for Influenza H1N1 Virus Detection”
Travel grants award from Chemical and Biological Microsystem Society (CBMS) for Proceedings of the MicroTAS, (2011) Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo “A DNA barcode assay integrated microdevice for highly sensitive and multiplex pathogen detection”
Excellent Result 100 in National Research (국가연구개발사업 우수성과 100선), “Development of an integrated graphene-based nanobiosensor for ultrasensitive water-borne pathogen detection” (2011) Tae Seok Seo
Poster Presentation Award in the Graduate Student’s Symposium in CBE, KAIST (2012) Jae Hwan Jung, Tae Seok Seo “ 3D Sol-gel Matrix Based Large Volume Sample-Pretreatment Microdevice”
The 14th Incheon Metropolitan City Grand Award in Scientific Technology (제14회 인천광역시 과학기술상 과학부문 대상) (2012) Tae Seok Seo
Outstanding Poster Award in Spring Meeting of the Korea Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Changwon (2012) Yong Tae Kim and Tae Seok Seo "An Integrated Microsystem of Polymerase Chain Reaction with Lateral Flow Strip Colorimetric Detection for Rapid Gene expression Analysis of Influenza A H1N1 Virus"
Being selected for the “People Brightening Korea” from Biology Research Information Center (BRIC) (2012), Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo “Homogeneous Biogenic Paramagnetic Nanoparticle Synthesis Based on a Microfluidic Droplet Generator”
Outstanding Poster Award in Spring Meeting of The Korean Biochip Society, Ansan (2012) Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo " Bead-based sample pretreatment microdevice based on centrifugal force”
Excellent Result 50 in Environmental Technology Research & Development (한국환경산업기술원 환경기술개발사업 우수성과 50선), “Development of an integrated graphene-based nano-biosensor for ultrasensitive water-borne pathogen detection” (2012), Tae Seok Seo
Top-50 most cited article in Biosensors & Bioelectronics (2012), Fei Liu and Tae Seok Seo “Graphene oxide arrays for detecting specific DNA hybridization by fluorescence resonance energy transfer”
The 15th Science and Technology Grand Prize of Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (Minister Award) (제15회 농림수산식품부 과학기술상 장관상) (2012), Tae Seok Seo “Development of an Integrated Portable DNA Analysis Microsystem for On-site Verification of Korean Cow Originality”
Young Investigator Research Award from the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (KSBB) (한국생물공학회 신인학술상) (2012) Tae Seok Seo
Featured in Lab on a Chip’s 2012 Emerging Investigators Themed Issue, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (2012년도 저널 랩온어칩 선정 신진 연구자) (2012) Tae Seok Seo
Travel grants from Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) of MicroTAS (2012), Dong Ju Han and Tae Seok Seo “Droplet-Based 3D Graphene Structure Synthesis”
Young Investigator Research Award from the Korean Biochip Society (한국바이오칩 학회 신인 학술상) (2012), Tae Seok Seo
Biochip Journal Award (Most downloaded article) from the Korean Biochip Society (한국바이오칩 학회 저널상) (2012), Tae Seok Seo
Outstanding Poster Award at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Korea Biochip Society, Gwangju (2012) Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo “Synthesis of homogeneous biogenic paramagnetic nanoparticle using a microfluidic droplet generator”
KAIST Technology Innovation Award from KAIST (KAIST 기술혁신상) (2012), Tae Seok Seo
Amchun paper award from Dept. chemical and biomolecular engineering, KAIST (2013), Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo “Homogeneous Biogenic Paramagnetic Nanoparticle Synthesis Based on a Microfluidic Droplet Generator”
Being selected for the “People Brightening Korea” from Biology Research Information Center (BRIC) (2013), Jong Young Choi and Tae Seok Seo “Polymerase Chain Reaction-Free Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Typing Using Gold Nanoparticle–DNA Monoconjugates”
Poster Presentation Award in the 3rd Graduate Student’s Symposium in CBE, KAIST (2013), Byung Hyun Park and Tae Seok Seo “A simple, rapid, automated centrifugal microdevice for Influenza A H1N1 viral RNA purification”
Oral Presentation Award in the 3rd Graduate Student’s Symposium in CBE, KAIST (2013), Jae Hwan Jung and Tae Seok Seo “Fully integrated rotary genetic analysis microsystem for rapid and sensitive influenza virus detection”
Outstanding Poster Award in Spring Conference of the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2013), Yong Tae Kim, Tae Seok Seo “An Integrated Microsystem of Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction and Microarray for Multiplex Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Typing”
Best Poster Award in NANO KOREA 2013, Seoul (2013), Hyun Dong Ha, Tae Seok Seo “Facile Synthetic Strategy for Pristine Graphene Quantum Dots and Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots: Origin Blue and Green Luminescence”
Lab on a Chip Top 10% from Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (2013), Jong Young Choi and Tae Seok Seo “An integrated allele-specific polymerase chain reaction-microarray chip for multiplex single nucleotide polymorphism typing”
Outstanding Poster Award in 2013 Summer Annual Conference of the Korean Vacuum Society (2013), Kyung Hoon Kim and Tae Seok Seo “Constructing a Three-Dimensional Endothelial Cell Layer In a Circular PDMS Microchannel”
Biochip Journal Award from the Korean Biochip Society (한국바이오칩 학회 저널상) (2013), Tae Seok Seo
Monthly Best Industrial Technical Award (Minister Award of the department of Trade, Industry and Energy) from KIET (Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology) (한국산업기술평가관리원 제4회 이달의 산업기술상 신기술 부문 최우수상 장관상) (2013), Tae Seok Seo
KAIST Joint Research Prize in the 2014 Selection of Excellent Faculty in commemoration of the 43rd Anniversary of KAIST's Founding (Research sector) (KAIST 개교 제43주년 기념 우수교원 포상 공동연구상), KAIST (2014), Tae Seok Seo
KAIST’s Top 10 R&D Accomplishments of 2014 in the 2014 Selection of Excellent Faculty in commemoration of the 43rd Anniversary of KAIST's Founding (Research sector) (KAIST 개교 제43주년 기념 KAIST 대표연구 우수성과 10선), KAIST (2014), Tae Seok Seo “Generation of pristine graphene quantum dots from graphite nanoparticles and clarification for their photoluminescence origin”
The Most Active Role Award from the Editorial Board members of Bioprocess and Biosystem Engineering (2014), Tae Seok Seo
Outstanding Poster Award in 1st Korea Graphene Symposium 2014, Buyeo (2014), Dong Ju Han and Tae Seok Seo “Synthesis of 3D graphene microballs using a microfluidic droplet system and its polymer composite with core-shell structure”
Oral Presentation Award in 4th Graduate Assistant Student Symposium 2014, KAIST (2014), Byung Hyun Park and Tae Seok Seo
Excellent Result 50 in Environmental Technology Research & Development (한국환경산업기술원 환경기술개발사업 우수성과 50선) “A graphene quantum dot incorporated portable microdevice for ultrafast, high efficient and multiplexed heavy metal detection” (2014) Tae Seok Seo
The Best Paper Award Poster Session, The 17th Korean MEMS Conference (2015), Dowhan Lee and Tae Seok Seo, “A valveless Direct PCR-CE microdevice for human Y-chromosome short tandem repeat genotyping using human whole blood”
The Best Paper Award Oral Session, The 17th Korean MEMS Conference (2015), Minkyung Cho and Tae Seok Seo, “A fully integrated lab-on-a-chip incorporating biobarcode assay for ultrasensitive and multiplex biological agent detection”
Oral presentation award, The Korean Biochip Spring conference 2015, Dowhan Lee and Tae Seok Seo, “Valveless Direct LAMP-Immunochromatographic Strip Microdevice for Detecting Pathogen Bacteria from Whole Blood Sample”
The Best Paper Award Poster Session, The Korean Biochip Spring conference 2016, Seung Jun Oh and Tae Seok Seo, “Colorimetric Foodborne Pathogen Detection on an Integrated and Automated Centrifugal Microfluidic Device”
The Best Paper Award, BIODEVICES 2019, Hau Van Nguyen, Van D. Nguyen, Eun Y. Lee and Tae S. Seo, “Identification for a Large-volume Food-borne Bacteria on a Fully Integrated Portable Centrifugal Disc”
Excellent Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC 2021, Nguyen Van Dan, Huynh Quoc Nguyen, Khang Hoang Bui, Tung Duy Dao and Tae Seok Seo, “On-chip capillary electrophoresis by smartphone for bacteria detection”
Excellent Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC 2021, Hau Van Nguyen, Van Dan Nguyen, Vu Minh Phan, Hiep Van Nguyen and Tae Seok Seo, “Human DNA purification at high-throughput manner using a centrifugal microfluidic disc for rapid forensic sex-typing”
2021학년도 4단계 BK21 창의혁신 KHU-Fellowship 장학 (2021.06.01), Hau Van Nguyen, Hiep Van Nguyen, Vu Minh Phan.
2021년도 보건의료 R&D 우수성과 (2021.06.17), 서태석, 한국보건산업진흥원
Best Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC Spring 2022, Huynh Quoc Nguyen, Van Dan Nguyen, and Tae Seok Seo, “Development of a portable IoT-based point-of-care device for identify SARS-CoV-2 using direct RT-LAMP and real-time fluorescent detection”
Excellent Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC Spring 2022, Khang Hoang Bui, Huong Thi Thuy Nguyen, and Tae Seok Seo, "On-and-off feedback control with hysteresis algorithm for automatic flow chemistry synthesis of the desired MAPbBrXI3-X quantum dot"
Best Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC Fall 2022, Hiep Van Nguyen, Hau Van Nguyen, Vu Minh Phan, Gayathri Sureshkumar, and Tae Seok Seo, "A serially-diluting centrifugal microdevice for producing various shapes of gold nanoparticles in a high-throughput and automatic manner"
Excellent Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC Fall 2022, Vu Minh Phan, Hiep Van Nguyen, and Tae Seok Seo, "A fully automatic centrifugal genetic analyzer for respiratory infectious diagnostics using nasopharyngeal swab samples"
Best Presentation Award, The 6th Asian Crystallization Technology Symposium (ACTS 2023), Hiep Van Nguyen, Tae Seok Seo, “A Serially-diluting Centrifugal Microdevice for Producing Various Shapes of Gold Nanoparticles in a High-throughput and Automatic Manner”
Best Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry – KSIEC Fall 2023, Thi Thuy Huong Nguyen, Hoang Khang Bui, Tae Seok Seo, “Autonomously-controlled synthesis of targeted hybrid perovskite quantum dots using an all-encompassing closed-loop feedback control algorithm in a continuous flow chemistry system”
Excellent Paper Award, The Brain Korea 21 (BK21), Vu Minh Phan, "Combination of a robotic solution pipetting device with a centrifugal molecular diagnostic platform for fully automatic respiratory infectious virus detection from nasopharyngeal swab samples"
Excellent Paper Award, The Brain Korea 21 (BK21), Hiep Van Nguyen, "Development of a high-throughput centrifugal microsystem for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect SARS-CoV-2"
Presentation Award (Poster), The 12th International Conference on Separation Science and Technology (ICSST23, Okinawa), Hiep Van Nguyen, Vu Minh Phan, Thi Thuy Huong Nguyen, Van Dan Nguyen, Tae Seok Seo, “Innovative high-throughput synthesis of gold nanomaterials using centrifugal microfluidics”
Presentation Award (Oral), The 12th International Conference on Separation Science and Technology (ICSST23, Okinawa), Thi Thuy Huong Nguyen, Van Dan Nguyen, Hiep Van Nguyen, Vu Minh Phan, Tae Seok Seo, “Intellectually-controlled synthesis of desired hybrid perovskite quantum dots based on a universal closed-loop feedback control algorithm in a continuous flow chemistry platform”
Excellent paper presentation award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering chemistry - KSIEC spring meeting, 2024, Gayathri Sureshkumar, So Jeong Park, Thi Thuy Huong Nguyen, Tae Seok Seo, " A miniaturized point-of-care molecular diagnostic device for foodborne pathogen detection"
Excellent paper presentation award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering chemistry - KSIEC spring meeting, 2024, To Thanh Truc Truong, Hoang Khang Bui, Van Hiep Nguyen, Tae Seok Seo, "Automated paper-based ELISA mechanism inspired by a merry-go-round for the colorimetric identification of SARS-CoV-2"
Excellent research achievement, Korean National Institute of Health, 2023 (2023년 국립보건연구원 연구개발사업 우수성과), Bui Hoang Khang, "Function of the Speech Recognition of the Smartphone to Automatically Operate a Portable Sample Pretreatment Microfluidic System"
Conference scholarship for Young Scientists, The 27th International Conference on Chemistry Education, Bui Hoang Khang. "MIT app Inventor for a Voice-Controlled Portable DNA extraction System"
Best presentation award, The 11th International Conference on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Engineering, 2024, Vu Minh Phan, Hiep Van Nguyen, Thanh Hoai Nguyen, Sojeong Park, Tae Seok Seo, "A fully automatic centrifugal genetic analyzer for respiratory infectious virus diagnostics using nasopharyngeal swab samples"