Rate My Professor Emily Griffith

Emily Griffith is a Professor of the Practice and Co-Associate Department Head in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. She earned her B.S. in Statistics, cum laude, from Florida State University in 2003, including minors in mathematics and Spanish. She then pursued graduate studies at North Carolina State University, receiving an M.S. in Statistics in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 2008, with a dissertation titled "Catch Curve and Capture Recapture Models: A Bayesian Combined Approach." Her early career featured a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center from 2008 to 2009, followed by a role as Survey Statistician there from 2009 to 2012. In 2013, she returned to NC State as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, progressing to Associate Research Professor and Associate Professor of the Practice in 2018, and achieving promotion to Professor of the Practice and Associate Department Head in 2024. Additional appointments include Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime Analysis, Research, and Development Unit from 2019 to 2021, Director of Data Science Consulting at the NC State Data Science Academy since 2021, Director of the Data Management and Analytics Core for the Center for the Environmental and Health Effects of PFAS from 2022 to 2024, and Fellow in the Office of Research and Innovation from 2020 to 2022.

Griffith's areas of expertise include consulting, sample theory, and spatial statistics, applied to fields such as veterinary and translational medicine, ecology, education research, agriculture, and chemistry. She has contributed to approximately 112 refereed publications, with notable works including "Retention and promotion of women and underrepresented minority faculty in science and engineering at four large land grant institutions" (PLoS ONE, 2017), "Use of single-dose oral gabapentin to attenuate fear responses in cage-trap confined community cats: a double-blind, placebo-controlled field trial" (Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2018), and "Tenure and promotion outcomes at four large land grant universities: Examining the role of gender, race, and academic discipline" (Research in Higher Education, 2020). Her scholarship has garnered over 3,000 citations. Griffith has received prestigious honors such as Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2023), NC State University Libraries Faculty Award (2025), Outstanding Mentor Award from the ASA Statistical Consulting Section (2022), Chapter Service Award from the North Carolina Chapter of the ASA (2021), and Dennis Boos Citizenship Award (2017-2018). She previously served as President of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association (2019) and holds positions on committees like the Pathways to Promotion in the ASA Section on Statistical Consulting, as well as the editorial board of the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. Her leadership has advanced statistical consulting education, mentoring, and interdisciplinary collaborations at NC State and beyond.