Devadas D. Pillai
Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group
Director, Operational Decision Support Technology
INTEL CORPORATION
Intel Fellow Devadas (Dev) Pillai is the Director of Operational Decision Support Technology in the Logic Technology Development group, based in Chandler, Arizona. He is currently responsible for development and proliferation of manufacturing simulation technology and mathematical modeling & optimization capabilities across Intel's wafer fabrication, sort, assembly and test factories worldwide.
Pillai also co-chairs Intel's High Volume Manufacturing Research Committee, which coordinates the company's manufacturing research initiatives with universities, national labs and industry consortia. He also serves as a technical advisory board member for the development of the factory integration chapter of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.
Pillai is Intel's first fellow whose technical expertise spans production simulation, robotics and factory automation. He has been honored many times by his industry peers as one of the most influential engineers who drove the vision and industry direction for large scale factory automation in semiconductor manufacturing.
Pillai introduced the use of computer simulation technology for Intel's factory operational designs beginning in 1986. From 1989 to 1994, he was the Design Engineering Manager of the Automated Material Handling Systems Group and led the company's successful 150mm and 200mm robotic transport systems development. From 1994 to 2000, he was Factory Integration Manager who coordinated Intel's highly successful 300mm production equipment, facilities and automation interface standardization and interoperability development with the worldwide consortia. Prior to his current position, he managed Intel's Enabling Technologies and Solutions group that was responsible for yield, fault isolation and failure analysis tools, process and production control systems, knowledge management capabilities and machine learning programs. Prior to Intel, Pillai was a development engineer at Ford Trucks.
Pillai is the recipient of two Intel Achievement Awards. In 2000, he was recognized by the National Academy of Engineering at the Frontiers of Engineering conference. He has written more than 90 peer-reviewed technical papers and presentations in IEEE, ISSM, SME, JES, IIE and SEMI publication in the fields of factory automation, 300mm factory design, and simulation modeling. He has also written a section on automation in the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and has co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, published by Marcel Dekker.
Pillai received his master's degree in Industrial Engineering specializing in computer-aided processes, from Arizona State University in December 1983 and his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, in 1980.
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