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John Urschel is a renowned mathematician and prolific researcher. Urschel has made a name for himself by solving complex equations and achieving theoretical results for practical problems. However, before he went fully into mathematics, Urschel was a professional football player.
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Which NFL team did John Urschel play for?
John Urschel played for the Baltimore Ravens in the National Football League. The Ravens drafted Urschel in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He spent three years with the Ravens, appearing in 40 games (13 starts) for the franchise.
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Urschel retired from professional football on July 27, 2017. Speaking about his retirement from the game, the former Ravens' guard said:
"CTE was a serious concern of mine. Yes, I am retiring; I did retire. But at the same time, I love the NFL. I love football. I would not trade my experiences for the world. Football is a great sport. I did not want to be fodder for any anti-football establishments."
John Urschel is an assistant professor at MIT
Following his retirement from active football, John Urschel immersed himself in the world of mathematics. He completed his PhD in math at MIT in 2021 and was advised by Michel Goemans.
Urschel is currently an assistant professor in the MIT Math department and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. According to his staff page at MIT, his research focuses on matrix and numerical analysis, emphasizing theoretical results and proveable guarantees for practical problems.
He has published academic papers, including but not limited to "Average Nodal Count and the Nodal Count Condition for Graphs" and "A New Upper Bound for the Growth Factor in Gauss. Elimin. with Complete Pivoting, Preprint", "Nodal Decompositions of a Symmetric Matrix, International Math. Research Notices", "Maximum Spread of Graphs and Bipartite Graphs, Communications of the AMS," and more. He teaches four courses at MIT, namely 18.335, 18.330, Math 232, and Math 041.
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