Haya joined the PhD program in 2025 under the mentorship of Dr. Ian Lyons, in the Math Brain Lab. She earned BAs in Cognitive Science and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2023. During undergrad, she worked in the Levitin Lab for Cognitive Neuroscience with Dr. Daniel Levitin, researching barriers to higher education. After graduating, she worked as a software engineer at Ceribell to develop and deploy seizure detection algorithms from EEG signals. Now her research is focused on the cognitive processes of problem solving in mathematics, using behavioral, fMRI and computational techniques.