Research opportunities (in machine learning) for undergraduate students at colleges without good research programs I am fascinated by machine learning, and have been experimenting with ML techniques in code for a few years now. I would really like to run an experimental study about the most effective ML systems for a certain problem, and incrementally improve the model. Basically, I'm looking for research, but my college doesn't have well-defined research programs. Are there opportunities to do research with other institutions for undergraduate students?

Update:

I see it's now worth mentioning that for various reasons, I attend a community college. Hence, no local research opportunities.
One thing to consider is research experience for undergraduate (REU) placements over the summer. Many of these are actively built on affording research opportunities to students in schools that do not necessarily have their own research infrastructure.

Here is a list of those funded by the NSF, but this is by no means all of them: http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5049