So the IEEE club of my university offered me to do do a research and lead a research team on any subject. The common topic for research would be AI and ML but i have decent knowledge of reverse engineering and low level stuff so i wanted to work on this subject rather than AI and ML.

So i am looking for suggestions on what unique thing I can explore and research in reverse engineering. I searched online and most of the stuff related to RE is related to malware analysis, I am also open for that idea but I first need to know my goal exactly so here I am asking for help from reddit gods. I have experience with exploring malicious stuff with volatility but again I want something unqiue with a good learning outcome so that the paper actually gets published.

One idea that has been in my mind was on reverse engineering self modifying binaries, but just analysis binaries with a RE framework won't be enough so I wanted to extend this by adding some more things into it like if I have a binary that injects shellcode during runtime and then modifies that shellcode etc etc. So pls suggestions are welcomed.

For reference I have attached a link to similar idea on IEEExplore