panaji the department of higher education on tuesday announced the name of those selected for the goa scholars scheme 201516 the twenty selected are bhargav joshi phd in physics university of florida usa shenoy gourav ms computer science indiana university bloomington usa susana quadros mba catolica portugalusa salim veljee ms in information technology carnegie mellon university richa patil phd structures earthquakes iitbombay amrita acharya executive pg course at iimahmedabad neeti bandodker mba dartmouth college nandini menon dnb medical oncology prince aly khan hospital mumbai farcia celine soares ms in architecture urban and regional design new york institute of technology charmaine rodrigues global masters in information systems management carnegie mellon esha keni master of computational data science carnegie mellon ivan rodrigues ms in mechanical engineering arizona state university yogiraj mantri ms in simulation sciences rwth aaachen university germany yashank sakhardande masters in computer engineering university of california rahul prabhudesai ms in sports management uk shraddha sawardekar mba yale niels menezes ms in biomedical sciences edinburgh university scotland and sidhesh wadikar ms in telecommunication syracuse usathe selection panel headed by ashank desai met on april 10 11 and 12 other members were fr bento rodrigures shrinivas dempo vivek kamat and erwin desa the director of higher education was member secretary