Lily Major

Lily Major is a Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University, holding a Doctor of Philosophy. Her research focuses on computational methods in data compression and algorithm design, including topics like the Burrows-Wheeler Transform and factorization techniques. She has contributed to interdisciplinary fields such as graph neural networks and solid-state physics through algorithmic frameworks.

Her recent work includes a 2025 article in the Journal of Heuristics, exploring heuristic strategies for optimizing run-length encoded data processing. Major collaborates with institutions globally and has published datasets on Lyndon factorizations, available via Zenodo (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3896389).