Hiroaki Etoh is a former engineer from IBM Japan who created Propolice/Stack Smashing Protector (SSP) 2000 and announced it on the gcc and bugtraq lists in August 2000.
He has written some publications IT and Computer Science.
https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/PaXTeam-H2HC15-RAP-RIP-ROP.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hiroaki-Etoh