Seongjin Hong
Research Assistant at U of T research lab - UTSC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSeongjin Hong is a research-focused embedded systems engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and testing medical diagnostic devices and control systems. Currently a Research Assistant at the University of Toronto, he brings practical expertise in C programming, microcontroller platforms (ATmega128/328), PCB soldering, thermal control for PCR cycles, and rapid prototyping with 3D printing. His work on digital microfluidic devices helped create portable cancer-detection machinery capable of precise temperature cycling and micro-drop manipulation. Combining security-minded thinking with embedded hardware and firmware skills, he bridges lab research and production-ready device engineering. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs a GIS academic background with a pragmatic maker’s approach to solve real-world biomedical problems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, GIS, Bachelor's degree, GIS at University of Toronto
Korean, English
Github Skills (8)
owasp10
document-repository10
cve10
calculator4
react4
javascript2
messaging-api1
nodejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
naver/security-advisory
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 2 years 8 months
owasp-kr/Top10
Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
Contributions:74 reviews, 9 PRs, 38 pushes in 18 days
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