[1] She was born into a medical family as her grandfather was a general and thoracic surgeon and her grandmother was an OB-GYN and primary care doctor in China and Taiwan.

[2] Born and raised in Berkeley, California to immigrant parents, Tseng started preschool without speaking English.

In April 2006, Tseng was named the first research scholar of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance and later won a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician-Scientist Early Career Award.

[4][7] During 2019, Tseng was selected as a Director of the American Board of Surgery[8] and recipient of the 2020 Pinnacle Award in the "Achievements in the Professions" category by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Network.

[9] As a result of her research, Tseng was also named to various editorial boards of several journals including the Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery.