The control of the spin-Seebeck current is still a challenging task for the
development of spin caloritronic devices. Here, we construct a spin-Seebeck
device by inserting a strongly correlated quantum dot (QD) between the metal
lead and magnetic insulator. Using the slave-particle approach and non-crossing
approximation, we find that the spin-Seebeck effect increases significantly
when the energy level of the QD locates near the Fermi level of the metal lead
due to the enhancement of spin flipping and occurrences of quantum resonance.
Since this can be easily realized by applying a gate voltage in experiments,
the spin-Seebeck device proposed here can also work as a thermovoltaic
transistor. Moreover, the optimal correlation strength and the energy level
position of the QD are discussed to maximize the spin-Seebeck current as
required for applications in controllable spin caloritronic devices.