Kamir did his undergraduate work in Biochemistry at Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Georgia. During undergrad he trained in labs at KSU, Fred Hutch, and Georgia Tech on a range of topics such as transcriptional regulation in extremophiles and epithelial tumorigenesis. After graduating in 2016, he started his PhD at the University of California San Francisco in the Biomedical Sciences program. He has worked primarily on the regulation of T cell priming in cancer and infection. He will graduate in 2020 and start a postdoc at Stanford University continuing to work on decoding immune responses. Outside of the lab Kamir loves music and digging for vinyl records as well as video games, hiking, and futbol (soccer).