PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

C. Sue Price

Also known as Sue Price

Sue Price is an information systems researcher and lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal whose work applies agent-based models and Bayesian networks to decisions in sugarcane supply chains and health monitoring. She coauthored studies on pulp-mill harvest scheduling in 2010, sugarcane transport in 2014, and growers’ adaptive decisions in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, she coauthored a study of student use of on-campus wireless networks; in 2022, she coauthored work on a wearable ECG health agent and a cognitive architecture for sugarcane growers. As of October 2026, she is a lecturer at UKZN’s Westville campus and pursues a PhD on an agent-based model of growers’ pre-harvest burning decisions.

Timeline

  1. 2010

    Harvest scheduling at pulp mills

    In 2010, she coauthors a study on reducing pulp-mill wood variation by including wood properties in harvest scheduling decisions.

  2. 2014

    Agent-based simulation at mill scale

    In 2014, she coauthors a paper that uses agent-based simulation to explore sugarcane supply-chain transport complexities at mill scale.

  3. 2018

    A network for pre-harvest burning

    In 2018, she coauthors a dynamic Bayesian decision network paper that represents growers’ adaptive pre-harvest burning decisions in a sugarcane supply chain.

  4. 2019

    Uncertain decisions for sugarcane growers

    At the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research in 2019, she coauthors a paper on modelling uncertain adaptive decisions for KwaZulu-Natal sugarcane growers.

  5. 2021

    Student use of wireless networks

    In 2021, she coauthors a paper analyzing students’ use of on-campus wireless networks by residence type, presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD).

  6. April 2022

    A personal health agent

    In April 2022, she coauthors a paper proposing a personal health agent that uses wearable ECG data to monitor heart activity and explain readings, with a focus on atrial fibrillation.

  7. July 2022

    A cognitive agent architecture

    In July 2022, she and three coauthors publish a cognitive model of sugarcane growers’ daily decisions, combining a Belief-Desire-Intention architecture with a dynamic decision network.

  8. As of October 2026

    Lecturer at UKZN

    As of October 2026, she is a lecturer in Information Systems and Technology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Westville campus. She holds a BSc Honours in Computer Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc in Computer Science from UKZN. She is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UKZN on an agent-based model of growers’ pre-harvest burning decisions in a KwaZulu-Natal sugarcane supply chain.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalLecturer in Information Systems and Technology

Education

  1. University of the WitwatersrandBSc Honours in Computer Science
  2. University of KwaZulu-NatalPhD in Computer Science

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of KwaZulu-Natal. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of KwaZulu-Natal. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.

Sources and credits

Photo: We have no published photo of C. Sue Price yet. Send us a free-licensed photo.

  1. Ms Sue Price - School of Management, IT and Governance smitg.ukzn.ac.za. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Combining machine learning and Bayesian networks for ECG interpretation and explanation - UCT Computer Science Research Document Archive pubs.cs.uct.ac.za. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. An adaptive, probabilistic, cognitive agent architecture for modelling sugarcane growers' operational decision-making scielo.org.za. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. C. Sue Price | CAIR cair.org.za. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Team – Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU) airu.org.za. Checked 22 October 2026.