Professor Griffin is an expert in forensic finance, which often uses big data or modeling to detect fraud. He seeks to help bring integrity to the financial system. Professor Griffin's latest research focuses on understanding and detecting fraud in the financial markets and the role that conflicts of interest and misreporting by credit rating agencies and investment banks played in the financial crisis. You may also work with his colleague, Professor Sam Kruger. These topics include: cryptocurrencies, structured finance, credit ratings, mortgage misreporting, real estate, and options market.