She joined Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi after earning her Ph.D. in Policy Research, Evaluation and Measurement in 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania. Zeng is a versatile and innovative young scholar. Her specialties include applied statistics and educational measurement. She was previously awarded the Educational Testing Service (ETS) GRE® Warren W. Willingham Graduate Research Assistantship in Psychometrics. Her research that utilized the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was published in Education in 2005. Moreover, her dissertation that employed Multi-Level Individual Growth Curve Modeling, an advanced statistical method, was awarded AERA Dissertation Grant.