Prior to his appointment with Department of Electronics he was working as the Head, Medical Electronic Instruments Division at Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh.

Mr. Khandpur is an expert with an international fame for his contribution and service towards the domain of Medical Instrumentation. He is a consultant to World Health Organisation and as a part of his consultancy he has toured number of countries.

He has eight patents and over fifty research papers to his credit. He has authored six internationally acclaimed books on instrumentation.

His future plans about CEDTI include setting up of Regional Institute of Information Technology at SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab, India.