[chudi]

What i did a couple of years algo is to approach a research lab of your interest, get in touch and try to get involved in a line of work of the lab, that usually means to work with some phd candidates, a postdoc or some junior researchers. If You stick around You should be on subject in a couple of months and ou can even get your name in some papel. You shouldn't be expecting the same involvment of a phd student, so you should keep showing up and trying to add value to the labs projects

[rapjr9]

Most of the industry people I worked with while supporting research in CS were in research labs in industry. A few collaborations were with companies who wanted something specific developed and assigned one of their group to work with us, but for more open ended research industry research labs are the way to go I think. DARPA projects often worked with us on research by pairing us with industry engineers.