Faculty
Dr. Abhishek Thommandru
Assistant Professor
Alliance School of Law
Dr. Abhishek Thommandru teaches Technological Laws, Business Laws, and Banking Laws, with a focus on FinTech and its Legal Mechanisms. He served as a Central Asian Legal Research Fellow at TSUL - Uzbekistan (2023 – 2024). He holds a Diploma In Financial Crime, Corruption & Money Laundering from Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, Greece (2022). He graduated from Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University and holds an LL.M. in Business Laws from Andhra University (2016-2018). He holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law from Vellore Institute of Technology-AP University, focusing on “Anti-Money Laundering Policies, Practices, and Regulations in India: A Study of Banking Sector Compliance (2023).” Currently, he is actively involved as an International Research Fellow at the University of Religions and Denominations, Iran (2023 – 2025).
- Thommandru, A. (2023). Smurfing in Electronic Banking: A Legal Investigation of the Potential for Transnational Money Laundering. International Journal of Legal Information, 51(1), 69–76. (Scopus)
- Thommandru Sr., A., et al. (2022). IMPACT of Artificial Intelligence on E-Banking and Financial Technology Development. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 16469–16475. (Scopus)
- Thommandru, A. (2022). The Globalization of Cashless Transactions Using Blockchain Technology to Preventing Money Laundering and the Changing Trends in the Cryptocurrency Market: A Learning Experience of Polish and EU Laws. European Studies: The Review of European Law, Economics and Politics, 9(2), 213–233. (Scopus)
- Thommandru, A., & Maratovich, F.F. (2024). Leveraging new emerging technologies to enhance the anticorruption arsenal: Assimilating India's experiential insights into Uzbekistan's criminoverse. Multidisciplinary Reviews, 7(3), e2024058. (Scopus)
- Thommandru, A., & Chakka, D.B. (2023). Recalibrating the Banking Sector with Blockchain Technology for Effective Anti-Money Laundering Compliances by Banks. Sustainable Futures, 5, 100107. (Scopus)
Book Chapters:
- Rutskiy, V., et al. (2023). Prospects for the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Combat Fraud in Bank Payments. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (Eds.), Data Science and Algorithms in Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 597. Springer. (Scopus)
Awards won
- Foundation Day Award for Research and Publication by VIT-AP University, 2022.
- Best paper on Art 370 by Mewar University, 2013.
- Thommandru, A., et.al (2023). Role of tourism and hospitality business in economic development. Materials Today: Proceedings, 80(3), 2901-2904. (Scopus).
- Thommandru, A. et.al (2023). An Investigation on Impact of Machine Learning in Additive Manufacturing. In: Yadav, S., Haleem, A., Arora, P.K., Kumar, H. (Eds.), Proceedings of Second International Conference in Mechanical and Energy Technology. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol. 290. (Scopus)
