Griffin is a post-doctoral researcher in the astrophysics department at the University of Oxford and a visiting scholar at the Berkeley SETI Research Center. His research is focused on the detection of rare and anomalous signals with applied machine learning techniques and signal processing techniques, primarily fast radio bursts and other transient radio sources. He was previously with the Square Kilometre Array South Africa project, based in Cape Town where he designed FPGA-based instrumentation and worked on imaging and calibration problems in interferometry.
