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Intel Fellow Devadas (Dev) Pillai, an Intel employee since 1984, is the Director of Enabling Technologies and Solutions in the Technologies and Manufacturing group, based in Chandler, Arizona. He is responsible for development and proliferation of manufacturing simulations and mathematical optimization capabilities, yield, fault isolation and failure analysis tools, process and production control systems, and knowledge management and learning solutions across Intel's wafer fabrication, sort, assembly and test factories worldwide. He is also responsible for Advanced Statistical Computing and Machine Learning group, based in Nizhny, Novgorod, Russia, chartered to deliver analytics and engineering analyses to improve yield, process capability, and manufacturing variability.
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 is simulation and 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.
Starting from the role of a development engineer responsible for designing Intel's fab and assembly test factories, Pillai introduced the widespread use of computer simulation technology for factory operational designs. 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 Intel, he 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 70 peer-reviewed technical papers in IEEE, ISSM, SME, JES, IIE and SEMI journals and publication in the fields of factory automation, 300mm factory design, and simulation and modeling. He has also written a section on automation in the 2003 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. | 