Ms. Burns earned a Bachelor of Science degreein mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a Master of Science degreein mechanical engineering from Columbia University.
He earned a bachelor's degreein electrical engineering from the University of the Pacific and later a master's degreein electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Federighi holds a Master of Science degreein Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
The programme aims to send 200 students a year to take a year-long master's degree at Tsinghua - in subjects including public policy, international relations, economics and business, and engineering - from 2016.