Edwin Kamau - NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics

Edwin Kamau is a computational biologist with a focus on computational protein structure modeling and engineering and research engineer and data scientist at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. Previously, he worked on identifying host-parasite interaction effectors of Toxoplasma gondii using a chemical biology approach.

His work entails understanding the structural requirements for anti-HIV antibodies’ interaction with the viral entry protein gp120. He is especially interested in developing tools to analyze and visualize politically driven social networks.

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Working Paper
Social Media, Information, and Politics: Insights on Latinos in the U.S.
- Marisa A. Abrajano,
- Marianna Garcia,
- Aaron Pope,
- Robert Vidigal,
- Edwin Kamau,
- Joshua A. Tucker,
- Jonathan Nagler
Working Paper, November 2022
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