Himanshu Gupta and Samir Das, faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, have been awarded a 4-year grant from the National Science Foundation for their research in free-space optics based data center architectures. The $1.2M award is in collaboration with Prof. Jon Longtin from Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, along with other investigators at Penn State and Carnegie Mellon, with Stony Brook being the lead institution.