She received her doctorate in Developmental Biology and Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Dr. Linda Schuler. She completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. C. Ronald Kahn at Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School. Tseng's current research focuses include brown fat development and function, and regulation of systemic energy metabolism. Dr. Tseng was an Eleanor and Miles Shore Scholar in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.