Steve McCloskey is a graduate from the first class of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego, with a focus on emerging technologies applied to STEM. He worked with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio, and helped establish the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center, while also developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Super-elastic alloys. Steve later founded Nanome Inc, a company that builds virtual reality solutions for scientists and engineers working at the nanoscale, with a focus on protein engineering and small molecule drug development.