Moses C. Nah
Robotics · Control · Physical interaction
Moses C. Nah 나종욱 · 羅鍾煜
Mount Everest stands to be the highest, since it's with the Himalayas.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Thus the nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
사람이 마음으로 자기의 길을 계획할지라도 그 걸음을 인도하는 자는 여호와시니라.
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
My name is Moses, and I am originally from South Korea. My Korean name is 나종욱 (羅鍾煜).
I am a full-stack robot control engineer specializing in physical interaction and robust low-level control. With mastery of robot kinematics and dynamics and of C++ programming, I implement classical methods, including impedance, passivity-based, and force/wrench control, to enable the safe, contact-rich manipulation that generalist foundation models depend on.
I did my PhD at MIT, where I was honored to have Prof. Neville Hogan as my advisor. I also worked closely with Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine. For my doctoral research, I developed a modular robot control framework that uses a finite set of control modules to generate an infinite range of behaviors. My work has been recognized with Best Paper Awards at IROS 2024 and BIOROB 2020.
I work at Holiday Robotics Research Inc., the U.S. research division of Holiday Robotics, the leading humanoid robotics company based in South Korea.
I love mathematics and physics and am always trying to get better at both. I was a Gold Medalist in the Korean Physics Olympiad (KPhO) and was selected for the summer and winter candidate schools of the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO). At MIT, I served as a teaching assistant for several courses, including linear and nonlinear control theory and dynamics.
Here are my recent CV and résumé, both updated in September 2026.
I am a runner (Strava: Moses Nah). My personal bests are 46:21 for 10 km and 1:40:43 for 20 km.
I also write about robotics and research on my blog.