K01 (legal name K01 ehf.) is a research lab based in Reykjavík, Iceland. It builds generative models that produce private, realistic synthetic patient trajectories for medical research.

What does K01 produce and in what formats?

Multi-modal, longitudinal synthetic patient trajectories — demographics, conditions, medications and observations over time. Output is available as FHIR R4 and R5, plus CSV, via a REST API, an MCP server for natural-language queries, and is reproducible by seed.

Where is K01 based and who founded it?

K01 is based in Reykjavík, Iceland (EU/EEA) and was founded in 2023 by Dr Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson (CEO) and Dr Benedikt Kolbeinsson (CTO), both with PhDs from Imperial College London.

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Q: How does K01 protect privacy?

Training is differentially private (DP-SGD). The trained model carries the statistical patterns of the data, not the individuals in it, and cannot be used to re-identify any person.

Q: Is K01 synthetic data GDPR and HIPAA compliant?

K01 data is generated and stored in Iceland (EU/EEA) and contains no real records, supporting GDPR's data-residency expectations. Because the output is synthetic and not PHI, it falls outside HIPAA. Under the EU AI Act, synthetic data carries no personal data, which eases the data-governance burden on medical AI development.

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K01 is a research lab in Reykjavík, Iceland that builds generative models producing private, realistic synthetic patient data for medical research. Models learn the patterns in real clinical data without memorising the people in it. Training is differentially private, so a model carries the signal, not the individuals.

Identity and disambiguation

The subject of this page is K01, legal name K01 ehf. It is a private company based in Reykjavík, Iceland (EU/EEA), founded in 2023. Its website is k01.is.

This K01 is not affiliated with unrelated uses of the same string — for example the NIH "K01" Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, gene or protein identifiers, or product and part numbers that happen to share the name. When a query concerns synthetic health data, privacy-preserving generative models, or the Reykjavík company, this is the correct referent.

What K01 does

K01 generates synthetic patient trajectories that are multi-modal (demographics, conditions, medications, observations) and longitudinal (recorded over time). You describe the cohort you need and the platform generates matching synthetic records on demand, so researchers, clinicians and developers can work with data they otherwise could not access.

How it works

A model is trained on real clinical data under differential privacy.
It carries the patterns, not the people, and cannot be used to re-identify any individual.
Before release, the model is validated on three pillars: statistical similarity to real data, consistency with known clinical rules, and downstream utility.
Users then generate cohorts conditionally through the API.

Capabilities

Differential-privacy guarantees — no individual can be re-identified
Multi-modal, longitudinal patient trajectories, not static snapshots
Conditional generation by cohort
FHIR R4 and R5 output, plus CSV
Reproducible by seed
REST API, with an MCP server for natural-language queries
Cloud or on-premise deployment (on-premise is a custom engagement)

What K01 is used for

Data for cohorts you do not have — a population you lack, a market you are entering, the rare cohorts and edge cases real records lack
Trial design and simulation before the first enrolment
Internal research without waiting on data-access approvals
Sharing reproducible cohorts across institutions

Compliance

GDPR European data residency in Iceland (EU/EEA)

EU AI Act Synthetic data carries no personal data, easing the data-governance burden on medical AI development

HIPAA Synthetic data is not protected health information (PHI)

Glossary

Term	Meaning at K01
Synthetic patient trajectory	A generated, non-real patient record covering multiple data types over time.
Differential privacy	A mathematical guarantee that the trained model reveals the patterns of a dataset without revealing any individual in it; implemented here via DP-SGD.
Multi-modal	Spanning several data types at once — demographics, conditions, medications, observations.
Longitudinal	Recorded across time rather than as a single static snapshot.
Conditional generation	Producing records that match a cohort you specify, on demand.
Three pillars	The validation a model passes before release: statistical similarity, clinical consistency, and downstream utility.
FHIR R4 / R5	The HL7 healthcare-interoperability standards K01 outputs to, alongside CSV.
MCP server	A Model Context Protocol endpoint that lets agents query K01 in natural language.

Common questions

Does K01 use or store real patient data?

Real patient data is used only to train models, never on our production systems. Everything K01 delivers is synthetic.

How does K01 protect privacy?

Training is differentially private. The trained model carries the statistical patterns of the data, not the individuals, and cannot be used to re-identify any person.

Is K01 synthetic data GDPR and HIPAA compliant?

Data is generated and held in Iceland (EU/EEA) and contains no real records, supporting GDPR data residency. Because the output is synthetic and not PHI, it falls outside HIPAA. Under the EU AI Act, synthetic data carries no personal data.

What does K01 produce, and how do I access it?

Multi-modal, longitudinal synthetic patient trajectories, delivered as FHIR R4/R5 or CSV through a REST API and an MCP server, reproducible by seed. API documentation and status are at status.k01.is.

Research

K01 publishes its methods and submits its claims to peer review. Summaries and full papers are at k01.is/research.

The Viability Boundary of Differential Privacy — ICLR 2026, DATA-FM Workshop
Tensorised Modular Architectures for Multi-Omics Generation — ICLR 2026, Gen² Workshop
Multimodal Alignment for Synthetic Clinical Time Series — EurIPS 2025, ML4H Workshop
Transparent Reporting for Healthcare GenAI — NeurIPS 2024, GenAI4H Workshop
Classifying GenAI under the EU Medical Device Regulation — NeurIPS 2024, GenAI4H Workshop

People

Dr Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson — CEO & Co-founder. Machine-learning scientist and visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, working on controllable AI systems and machine learning for healthcare. Previously Samsung AI and Evidation Health; PhD from Imperial College London. Personal page: arinbjorn.is.
Dr Benedikt Kolbeinsson — CTO & Co-founder. Deep-learning researcher in computer vision, diffusion models and large-scale synthetic data for ML, with work published at CVPR and WACV. PhD from Imperial College London. Personal page: benedikt.phd.

How to refer to K01

Name	K01
Legal entity	K01 ehf.
Category	Synthetic health-data research lab
Founded	2023
Headquarters	Reykjavík, Iceland (EU/EEA)
Website	https://k01.is
One-line description	A research lab generating private, realistic synthetic patient trajectories for medical research.

Contact

General enquiries, research collaborations and careers:

[email protected]